Actor in sync code

Asked on 08/02/2024

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Actors in Swift are a feature designed to help manage concurrency by protecting shared mutable state. They are similar to classes in that they are reference types, but they automatically serialize access to their state, ensuring that only one task can execute at a time on an actor. This helps prevent data races and makes concurrent programming safer and more manageable.

For example, in the session A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design, it is explained that actors can encapsulate shared mutable state and synchronize access to it. This means that calls to actor methods from outside the actor's context are asynchronous, and you need to use the await keyword to access them.

Additionally, in the session Migrate your app to Swift 6, it is mentioned that you can use the mainactor assume isolated method to tell the compiler that a particular piece of code is already running on the main actor, which avoids starting a new task and helps maintain performance.

Here are the relevant sessions mentioned:

  1. A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design
  2. Migrate your app to Swift 6

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