On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote:
> On May 26, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Stephen J. Butler wrote:
>> - Use NSNotifications to notify that a new object is waiting to be
>> processed. If you go this route, you could actually have multiple
>> processing threads all listening for the notification.
>
> Notifications are delivered on the same thread as they are posted.  So, this 
> doesn't help get work from one thread to another (or several others).  You 
> can, upon receiving a notification, initiate some work on another thread, but 
> that gets you back to square one as far as this discussion is concerned.

Huh... I don't know why I thought notifications were process wide. Too
little caffeine today.
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