Is NSXMLParser's parse method asynchronous

cocoa, concurrency, iphone, nsxmlparser, objective-c

Solution

It is not asynchronous so it will block the main thread.

Problem

Is NSXMLParser's parse method asynchronous? in other words if i have an NSXMLParse object and I call `[someParseObject parse]` from the main thread, will it block the main thread while it does its thing?

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