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_6

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Andrés Ibañez Kautsch¹  

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La Paz, Bolivia

 

So far, we have covered about writing concurrent code in Swift using tasks that are independent of each other. You run some tasks, and oftentimes deliver the results to the main thread. But there are cases in which you need to have shared mutable state in your program – a common mutable source that your code can read from and write to. This source can be a simple variable, or it can be a file, or it can be any other kind of resource that is dangerous to access concurrently, yet it needs to be available to multiple tasks at the same time.

If you have multiple pieces of code ...