Hi,
I have this little project (mod-swift.org) in which I embed Swift into
Apache. I’m trying to understand the implications of hosting GCD Swift code
inside an Apache process&thread.
Though I guess those are pretty generic questions.
- Can I create a concurrent queue from within an external thread and
dispatch blocks to that (and then use a barrier or semaphore to wait on
completion)?
- Is the external thread in any way touched by GCD? Would it somehow
automatically create a serial queue for it? Or reuse the thread for queues
created from it?
- What would accessing DispatchQueue.main mean in such a context? Is this
attaching a serial queue to the first thread invoking it?
What I essentially want is this:
let workerQueue =
DispatchQueue(label: “sync->async->sync",
attributes: DispatchQueue.Attributes.concurrent)
func doSomethingAsyncAndWait(@esc cb: (@esc done:()->())->()) {
var done = DispatchSemaphore(value: 0)
workerQueue.async {
cb() { done.signal() }
}
done.wait()
}
Is there anything I need to consider when doing this?
Thanks a lot!
Helge