GCD总结（二）
不再使用锁（Lock）
用户队列可以用于替代锁来完成同步机制。在传统多线程编程中，你可能有一个对象要被多个线程使用，你需要一个锁来保护这个对象：
NSLock *lock;
访问代码会像这样：
- (id)something
{
id localSomething;
[lock lock];
localSomething = [[something retain] autorelease];
[lock unlock];
return localSomething;
}
- (void)setSomething:(id)newSomething
{
[lock lock];
if(newSomething != something)
{
[something release];
something = [newSomething retain];
[self updateSomethingCaches];
}
[lock unlock];
}
使用GCD，可以使用queue来替代：
dispatch_queue_t queue;
要用于同步机制，queue必须是一个用户队列，而非全局队列，所以使用usingdispatch_queue_create初始化一个。然后可以用dispatch_barrier_async和dispatch_sync将共享数据的访问代码封装起来：
- (id)something
{
__block id localSomething;
dispatch_sync(queue, ^{
localSomething = [something retain];
});
return [localSomething autorelease];
}
- (void)setSomething:(id)newSomething
{
dispatch_barrier_async(queue, ^{
if(newSomething != something)
{
[something release];
something = [newSomething retain];
[self updateSomethingCaches];
}
});
}
