Hi,
When using Swift Concurrency blocking tasks like file I/O, GPU work and networking can prevent forward moving progress and have the potential to exhaust the cooperative thread pool and under utilize the CPU. It's been recommended to offload these tasks from the cooperative thread pool.
Is my understanding correct that the preferred way to do this is by creating async tasks via Dispatch or OperationQueue? And combining these with Continuations if a return value from the task is required? Or should I always be using Continuations in combination with Dispatch/OperationQueue?
There are also Executors but the documentation seems a bit limited on how to use these. The new TaskExecutor is also only available on the latest beta's.
My question is basically what is the recommend way to offload a task?
Thanks!