Modern Concurrency on Apple Platforms: Using async/await with Swift

© Andrés Ibañez Kautsch 2023

A. I. KautschModern Concurrency on Apple Platformshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8695-1_5

5. Unstructured Concurrency

Andrés Ibañez Kautsch¹  

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La Paz, Bolivia

 

In the last chapter, we talked extensively about structured concurrency. We learned that structured concurrency follows the same ideas of structured programming. A natural counterpart for structured concurrency is unstructured concurrency.

Unstructured concurrency offers more flexibility in exchange for slightly less usability. When working with unstructured concurrency, your code will not necessarily follow the top-to-bottom structure we have come to love. Luckily, working with unstructured concurrency is still very easy, and the flexibility won’t increase ...