This is the first in a series of posts I have planned about working with low-level run loop APIs provided by the CoreFoundation C library. I demonstrate how they can be used in a C++ app by building up some higher level abstractions and RAII wrappers.

The next post I have planned goes over how to use the CFRunLoop to post cross-thread tasks, and will include some benchmarks comparing with an alternative C++ lock-free SPSC task queue implementation.