Jobs for irregular tasks, managed data access.

I have a long running task mostly io bound which should run in background, allocate managed memory and do stuff. Task takes a pretty much amount of time, because of lots of io access and string parsing involved. IJob currently is not suitable for such things, cause it can't work with reference types and the whole design behind jobs looks like they are made for regular frame tasks. Creating a managed thread is a workaround of that, but now Unity has its own threadpool for workers, so maybe there is a more effective way to ask a background thread to do some task. Unity already have such API for async assets loading for example but i can't find any way to launch user-defined async operation. Not sure its a right place to ask, but maybe there's something like an irregular/background job?

 

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https://forum.unity.com/threads/solved-c-job-system-vs-managed-threaded-code.545360/