Chapter 8
Concurrency
User experience is extremely dependent on responsive applications. In order to create a fluid and smooth experience for your users, asynchronous operations are required. Users expect an application to be responsive, even during long-running operations such as network access or processing-intensive operations. This chapter covers recipes about threading and concurrency using Swift. There are three approaches to threading in iOS and OS X: NSThread, Grand Central Dispatch, and NSOperationQueue. This chapter covers the following, including those approaches:
- Threading with NSThread
- Synchronizing Threads
- Using Grand Central Dispatch for Threading
- Using NSOperations and NSOperationsQueue
- Completing Tasks in the Background ...
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