On Thu, Oct 3, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
> 
> Because I’ve got tens of thousands of lines of code*, a lot of which does
> some tricky asynchronous work using the runloop/thread paradigm, and I
> don’t want to break it by rewriting all of it en masse to use GCD. If I
> could start using GCD in new parts of the code that would be great, but
> when I tried to do so I ran into these impedance mismatches and had to
> tear it out.

They're fundamentally different ways of doing multiprocessing.

If you need thread-affinity, you can't use GCD. It's not designed that
way.

You _could_ have all your async queues target a serial queue that then
enqueues a bunch of blocks on a specific thread, but why?

--Kyle Sluder

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