Modern Concurrency: Beyond the Basics
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Throughout this course, whenever you’ve needed to make quick changes that drive the UI, you’ve called MainActor.run(...) to access MainActor from anywhere. Because your app runs on a single main thread, you can’t create a second or a third MainActor. So it does make sense that there’s a default, shared instance of that actor that you can safely use from anywhere.
@globalActor actor ImageDatabase {
static let shared = ImageDatabase()
// ...
}
@ImageDatabase func say(_ text: String) {
// ... automatically runs on ImageDatabase ...
}
@ImageDatabase class DiskStorage {
// ...
}