https://solarana.dev/tags/threading/ Recent content in threading on Madison's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 15 Apr 2018 10:00:00 -0500 https://solarana.dev/2018/04/15/protecting-critical-sections/ Sun, 15 Apr 2018 10:00:00 -0500 https://solarana.dev/2018/04/15/protecting-critical-sections/ When working on an application or framework, you eventually run into the problem of needing to do some work in a controlled environment. In order to guarantee the safety of the work being done, you want to lock down that particular path so that it can execute without state changing while it is running. This is what’s called a critical section. Luckily, the Apple development platform provides an abundance of options for implementing parallelizable code.