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FWEugene / SwiftConcurrency.md
Created January 10, 2019 17:37
All about concurrency

Threads

Foundation offers a Thread class, internally based on pthread, that can be used to create new threads and execute closures.

// Detaches a new thread and uses the specified selector as the thread entry point.
Thread.detachNewThreadSelector(selector: Selector>, toTarget: Any, with: Any)

// Subclass
class MyThread: Thread {
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@tclementdev
tclementdev / libdispatch-efficiency-tips.md
Last active December 24, 2025 11:02
Making efficient use of the libdispatch (GCD)

libdispatch efficiency tips

The libdispatch is one of the most misused API due to the way it was presented to us when it was introduced and for many years after that, and due to the confusing documentation and API. This page is a compilation of important things to know if you're going to use this library. Many references are available at the end of this document pointing to comments from Apple's very own libdispatch maintainer (Pierre Habouzit).

My take-aways are:

  • You should create very few, long-lived, well-defined queues. These queues should be seen as execution contexts in your program (gui, background work, ...) that benefit from executing in parallel. An important thing to note is that if these queues are all active at once, you will get as many threads running. In most apps, you probably do not need to create more than 3 or 4 queues.

  • Go serial first, and as you find performance bottle necks, measure why, and if concurrency helps, apply with care, always validating under system pressure. Reuse

@lattner
lattner / TaskConcurrencyManifesto.md
Last active December 10, 2025 18:44
Swift Concurrency Manifesto
@steipete
steipete / SpinlockTestTests.swift
Last active January 20, 2025 15:55 — forked from RomanTruba/Synchronization_test_iOS_SDK10
Updated for Xcode 8, Swift 3; added os_unfair_lock
//
// SpinlockTestTests.swift
// SpinlockTestTests
//
// Created by Peter Steinberger on 04/10/2016.
// Copyright © 2016 PSPDFKit GmbH. All rights reserved.
//
import XCTest
@julianxhokaxhiu
julianxhokaxhiu / create-iso.sh
Created September 24, 2016 21:46
Simple bash script to create a Bootable ISO from macOS Sierra Install Image from Mac App Store
#!/bin/bash
#
# Credits to fuckbecauseican5 from https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/4s561a/macos_sierra_16a238m_install_success_and_guide/
# Adapted to work with the official image available into Mac App Store
#
# Enjoy!
hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_app
hdiutil create -o /tmp/Sierra.cdr -size 7316m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J
hdiutil attach /tmp/Sierra.cdr.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build
@ruslanskorb
ruslanskorb / UIApplication+RSKSharedApplication.h
Created March 28, 2015 19:39
Avoids compile time errors about the using of `[UIApplication sharedApplication]` in an app extension.
//
// UIApplication+RSKSharedApplication.h
//
// Copyright (c) 2015 Ruslan Skorb, http://ruslanskorb.com/
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active December 26, 2025 17:21
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@ruslanskorb
ruslanskorb / StyleSettings.plist
Created March 18, 2014 10:28
Coding standards for Objective-Clean app used by KidMastermind.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>kRequireSpaceAfterColon</key>
<false />
<key>kRequireOpenBraceOnMethodSignatureLine</key>
<false />
<key>kRequireOpenBraceOnConditionalStatementLine</key>
<true />
/**
* Several macros simplifying use of weak references to self inside blocks
* which goal is to reduce risk of retain cycles.
*
* Example:
* @code
@interface Example : NSObject{
int _i;
}