Re: Recent drawing optimizations

[Alexander Malmberg]

Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> I have found that there is NSApplication 
> + (void)detachDrawingThread:(SEL)selector toTarget:(id)target
> withObject:(id)argument.
> 
> What is its purpose? Should not it be, that this method will
> create another thread, and appkit will be aware of that tread
> so it can perform drawing operations?

According to the documentation, it's a wrapper for NSThread
+detachNewThreadSelector:toTarget:withObject: that automatically creates
an autorelease pool for the new thread. The name seems misleading.

- Alexander Malmberg