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		whowouldathunk on Aug 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swift 5: start your engines Ugh, makes me think of COM https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...

int_19h on Aug 10, 2017 [–]

This is different. COM apartments were a runtime mechanism to magically make the code to run on a single thread (or on multiple but specific threads for MTA), by introducing object proxies that "transparently" marshaled calls.

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