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0 pointssaagarjha7y ago0 comments

> Cocoa is incredibly fragile about the main thread, so you need to be super careful what runs in what queue.

This basically just boils down to "don't touch the UI off the main thread". There are some exceptions with CoreAnimation, but other than that the main thread checker will yell at you if you do something wrong.

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favorited7y ago

The main thread checker is a godsend. Enabling it + TSAN + Core Data concurrency assertions have reduced the threading bugs my team deals with to almost 0.

Anywhere we're doing something specific, we make liberal use of `dispatchPrecondition(condition: .onQueue(mySerialQueue))` or `assert(Thread.isMainThread)`.

Even in places where we are doing multithreaded UI rendering (mostly CATiledLayer), it's become a non-issue. It's a night-and-day difference compared to 5+ years ago.

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0 pointssaagarjha7y ago0 comments

> Cocoa is incredibly fragile about the main thread, so you need to be super careful what runs in what queue.

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favorited7y ago

The main thread checker is a godsend. Enabling it + TSAN + Core Data concurrency assertions have reduced the threading bugs my team deals with to almost 0.

Anywhere we're doing something specific, we make liberal use of `dispatchPrecondition(condition: .onQueue(mySerialQueue))` or `assert(Thread.isMainThread)`.

Even in places where we are doing multithreaded UI rendering (mostly CATiledLayer), it's become a non-issue. It's a night-and-day difference compared to 5+ years ago.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse