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In Swift, actors are designed to protect their state by serializing accesses, ensuring that only a single task can execute at a time on an actor. This means that actors cannot be "weak" or "unknown" in the sense that they are always isolated and their state is protected from concurrent access.
However, there are mechanisms to handle situations where you need to interact with actors in a specific way. For example, you can use the assumeIsolated method to tell the compiler that a particular piece of code is already running on a specific actor, such as the main actor. This can help avoid starting new tasks unnecessarily and ensure that the code runs safely within the actor's context.
For more details on how actors work and how to handle concurrency in Swift, you can refer to the session A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design and Migrate your app to Swift 6.
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