Lesson 4 (Advanced): Threads
- By Jiva DeVoe
- Published Mar 28, 2013 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
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- Copyright 2013
- Edition: 1st
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- ISBN-10: 0-13-347781-9
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-347781-8
Lesson 4, “Threads,” emphasizes the importance of understanding threads. Viewers are introduced to Grand Central Dispatch, the core of the Objective-C threading model. The lesson covers how to use the low-level Grand Central Dispatch interface (C API) to submit jobs to the dispatch queue system. Viewers learn how to use the Objective-C interface to the Grand Central Dispatch system, NSOperation and NSOperationQueue.. Viewers then learn how to write thread safe code to ensure two threads can’t conflict while running. . Finally, the lesson goes into more depth on an aspect of properties related to threading, atomic accessors.