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p_ing on Jan 4, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do Files want to be Actors?

It does not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch

(which uses pthreads)

pjmlp on Jan 5, 2025 [–]

Not really, it depends on the OS X version, and the one used by Swift has multiple implementations.

Also it isn't regular pthreads on OS X, rather Apple own's flavour.

Described on the Internals section.

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