DAY 39
Project 9, part one
Joss Whedon, the creator of Firefly, once said that “the secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking – it’s just extreme focus and organization.” (If you weren’t aware, Firefly played a big part in the development of Swift – the internal code name (“Shiny”) was from there, the original documentation mentioned the series a lot, and you’ll even find references to Firefly in my work!)
Of course, computers operate very different from people: an iPhone XS has six CPU cores inside, and each of those six things can work independently of the others. If you use just one of them – as we have been doing all this time – then your app will never come close to using the full power of the device.
So, to make the most of those cores we need to do real multitasking: not just extreme focus and organization, but dividing up work that can happen simultaneously across as many cores as we need.
This is traditionally A Very Hard Problem, but Apple has a framework called Grand Central Dispatch that makes it remarkably easy. It does, however, use closures, so brace yourself!
Today you have five topics to work through, and you’ll learn about Grand Central Dispatch, quality of service queues, performSelector(), and more.
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