Synchronizing producer, consumer and a producer queue?

You might consider using a pair of NSOperationQueues or dispatch queues. Have your production operations (in the producer queue) send messages, on the main thread if necessary, to an object that adds consumption operations to the consumer queue.

I ended up using two semaphores, objectsReady and bufferFreeSlots.

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