I have an image loader class which provided with NSURL loads and image from the web and executes completion block. Code is actually quite simple

- (void)downloadImageWithURL:(NSString *)URLString completion:(BELoadImageCompletionBlock)completion
{
    dispatch_async(_queue, ^{
//    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_HIGH, 0), ^{
        UIImage *image = nil;
        NSURL *URL = [NSURL URLWithString:URLString];
        if (URL) {
            image = [UIImage imageWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:URL]];
        }  
        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            completion(image, URLString);
        });
    });

}

When I replace

dispatch_async(_queue, ^{

with commented out

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_HIGH, 0), ^{

Images are loading much faster, wich is quite logical (before that images would be loaded one at a time, now a bunch of them are loading simultaneously). My issue is that I have perhaps 50 images and I call downloadImageWithURL:completion: method for all of them and when I use global queue instead of _queue my app eventually crashes and I see there are 85+ threads. Can the problem be that my calling dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_HIGH, 0) 50 times in a row makes GCD create too many threads? I thought that gcd handles all the treading and makes sure the number of threads is not huge, but if it's not the case is there any way I can influence number of threads?