On 25 Nov 2012, at 13:38, Roland King <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure that when I was watching the WWDC 2012 sessions, dispatch 
> queues are now objects (since iOS6 and OS 10.7/10.8?) and as such I don't 
> have to dispatch_retain() or release them and can just use them like any 
> other object. But I can't find a reference in the documentation which 
> supports that, that still says dispatch_queue_t is a struct. 
> 
> I wandered around the header files a bit but they conflict with each other. 
> The header file (queue.h) says they are reference counted via calls to 
> dispatch_retain() .. but the OS_OBJECT_DECL() macro says something rather 
> different, that they are objects and the trail goes cold there. 
> 
> Am I correct in what I remember, are they now NSSObjects? 

They are objective-C objects, which doesn't necessarily mean they inherit from 
NSObject. If you have a deployment target of 10.8 or iOS 6 then ARC is able to 
manage their lifecycle for you.


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