I am monitoring my application using Activity Monitor and whenever NSOpenPanel is called the application appears as having 9 threads and stays like that until the application is closed.
Is there a way to release those threads?, Or am I simply misunderstanding what the threads number means?, surely it isn't a good thing to have them open for no reason.
Any help would be appreciated
It looks like the threads are created for tasks such as detecting drives being mounted, so that NSOpenPanel can add them to its sidebar. It looks like a bunch of threads get created when the panel is open, and several of them are destroyed afterwards, but a few do still hang around. The threads aren't doing any work though, they're just blocked waiting for various events to happen. So, they may take up a bit of memory, but they shouldn't affect performance or anything like that. There isn't any way for you to get rid of them in your program though.