Does dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{…}); wait until done?

Question

I have a scenario in my app, where I want to do some time consuming task which consists of some data processing as well as UI update, in a method. My method looks like this,

Answer 1

OK, there are two ways of doing that:

// GLOBAL_CONCURRENT_QUEUE


- (void)doCalculationsAndUpdateUIsWith_GlobalQUEUE 
{
    dispatch_queue_t globalConcurrentQ = dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0);
    dispatch_async(globalConcurrentQ, ^{

       // DATA PROCESSING 1
       sleep(1);
       NSLog(@"Hello world chekpoint 1");
       dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
           // UI UPDATION 1
           sleep(1);
           NSLog(@"Hello world chekpoint 2");
       });

        /* the control to come here after UI UPDATION 1 */
        sleep(1);
        NSLog(@"Hello world chekpoint 3");
        // DATA PROCESSING 2

        dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            // UI UPDATION 2
            sleep(1);
            NSLog(@"Hello world chekpoint 4");
        });

        /* the control to come here after UI UPDATION 2 */
        sleep(1);
        NSLog(@"Hello world chekpoint 5");
        // DATA PROCESSING 3

        dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            // UI UPDATION 3
            sleep(1);
            NSLog(@"Hello world chekpoint 6");
        });
   });
}



// SERIAL QUEUE
- (void)doCalculationsAndUpdateUIsWith_GlobalQUEUE 
{

    dispatch_queue_t serialQ = dispatch_queue_create("com.example.MyQueue", NULL);
    dispatch_async(serialQ, ^{

       // DATA PROCESSING 1
       sleep(1);
       NSLog(@"Hello world chekpoint 1");

       dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
           // UI UPDATION 1
           sleep(1);
           NSLog(@"Hello world chekpoint 2");
       });


       sleep(1);
       NSLog(@"Hello world chekpoint 3");
       // DATA PROCESSING 2

       dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
           // UI UPDATION 2
           sleep(1);
           NSLog(@"Hello world chekpoint 4");
       });  
   });
}