Using a single shared background thread for iOS data processing?

Question

I have an app where I\'m downloading a number of resources from the network, and doing some processing on each one. I don\'t want this work happening on the main thread, but it\

Answer 1

I would use NSOperationQueue or GCD and profile. Can't imagine thread overhead will beat out network delays.

NSOperationQueue would let you limit the number of simultaneous operations, if they end up getting too greedy. In fact, you can limit it to one if you need to.