Concurrency
Thread Sanitizer
How does Thread Sanitizer actually catch data races?
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TSan instruments every memory access and synchronization event at compile time and detects unsynchronized accesses at runtime through happens-before relationships. It's dynamic analysis that catches races while the code runs, so it complements Swift 6 static checking.
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