Block_release deallocating UI objects on a background thread

Question

One of the patterns presented at the WWDC 2010 \"Blocks and Grand Central Dispatch\" talk was to use nested dispatch_async calls to perform time consuming tasks on a backgro

Answer 1

This worked for me (added a timer):

[self retain]; // this guarantees that the last release will be on the main threaad
dispatch_async(backgroundQueue, ^{
    // do something time consuming in background
    NSArray *results = ComputeBigKnarlyThingThatWouldBlockForAWhile();

    // use results on the main thread
    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
        [myViewController UpdateUiWithResults:results];
        [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.1 target:self selector:@selector(releaseMe:) userInfo:nil repeats:NO];
    });
});
- (void)releaseMe:(NSTimer *)theTimer {
    [self release]; // will be on the main thread
}