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Day: February 20, 2017

Posted on 20 February 201714 December 2021

Migrating Away From Threads

A few weeks ago, I recommended an article about dispatch queues and then demonstrated how to create a simple asynchronous dispatch queue using C++11. Continuing on the theme of "threads are dangerous", today's reading material is again pulled from Apple's website: Migrating Away from Threads. Apple provides various strategies and examples for developers looking to …

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Instead of calling your thing “new”, name it after the actual new thing. The “New Executable” could have been called a “Segmented Executable”, for example. If you can’t find a name for the new thing, you can chicken out and call it “v2”. In the above case, the error message would at least say “This attribute is allowed only with version 2 type libraries.”Raymond Chen
On the Dangers of Giving a Product Feature the Name “New”

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