With a serial queue guarding the function or concurrent queues dumping into a serial target queue, DispatchQueue.sync(execute:) can be used as a synchronizing primitive suitable for most workflows. Have you tried exploring libDispatch outside of Semaphores?
~Robert Widmann > On Jun 12, 2017, at 2:10 AM, Erik Aigner via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > In my day to day tasks, synchronization primitives are used quite often. ObjC > had the @synchronized attribute for methods. I didn’t find anything about > this in swift evolution, so I thought i bring it up here. I think it would > quite easily be possible to introduce a synchronized qualifier for > struct/class objects that automatically synthesize a semaphore variable on > the object and use it to lock said method. Here is an example of how that > would work > > Without the synchronized attribute (code written in mail, not compiled): > > class Obj { > > private let sema = DispatchSemaphore(value: 1) > > func synchronizedMethod() { > sema.wait() > defer { > sema.signal() > } > // do something... > } > } > > With synchronized attribute (the semaphore/wait/deferred-signal is > synthesized by Swift automatically) > > class Obj { > > synchronized func method() { > // semaphore is synthesized automatically, do something… > } > } > > > Cheers, > Erik > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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