Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript

© Radoslava Leseva Adams and Hristo Lesev 2016

Radoslava Leseva Adams and Hristo Lesev, Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1666-8_7

7. Concurrency

Radoslava Leseva Adams¹  and Hristo Lesev²

(1)London, UK

(2)Kazanlak, Bulgaria

Imagine that you share a house with three housemates: Alice, Bob, and Charles; the house is a mess and you want it cleaned up for your mother’s visit on the weekend. You could do it all yourself, starting with the kitchen, moving on to the bathroom, then the hallway, and so on. Or you could recruit your housemates and give each of them tasks: Alice could tidy up the living room, Bob could vacuum it, and Charles could dust, while you water the plants, for example. Then all of you could get on with ...