Concurrency
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In the previous episode, you learned about the benefits of Swift Concurrency and what problem it solves. Swift Concurrency solves several more problems, which we discuss later in this series. In this episode, we take a peek under the hood to understand how Swift Concurrency does its magic.
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Before I show you how to adopt Swift Concurrency in a project, I want to take a moment to show you why native support for concurrency was added to the language. Let's take a look at an example to better understand what problem Swift Concurrency solves.
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Before we take a look at Swift Concurrency, it is important that you become familiar with a few core concepts that relate to Swift Concurrency. While you may already be familiar with some of them, this episode should take away any doubt or confusion you have.
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5:57
In the early days of the Swift language, it took just a few hours to learn the fundamentals of the language. I'm sorry to say that that is no longer true. Swift has become richer and, as a result, more complex. The language has become much more capable, but those capabilities come at a price, increased complexity.
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You've probably heard about Grand Central Dispatch and chances are that you've used it in some of your projects. This series takes a close look at Grand Central Dispatch. Before exploring the API of Grand Central Dispatch, we find out what it is and what problem it solves.
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While NSOperation and NSOperationQueue have been available since iOS 2, Grand Central Dispatch, GCD for short, was introduced in iOS 4 and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Both technologies are designed to encapsulate units of work and dispatch them for execution. Because these APIs serve the same goal, developers are often confused when to use which.
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