Executes a block object once and only once for the lifetime of an application.
This function is useful for initialization of global data (singletons) in an application. Always call this function before using or testing any variables that are initialized by the block.
If called simultaneously from multiple threads, this function waits synchronously until the block has completed.
The predicate must point to a variable stored in global or static scope. The result of using a predicate with automatic or dynamic storage (including Objective-C instance variables) is undefined.
dispatch_once() is absolutely synchronous. Not all GCD methods do things asynchronously (case in point, dispatch_sync() is synchronous). The use of dispatch_once() replaces the following idiom:
+ (MyClass *)sharedInstance {
static MyClass *sharedInstance;
@synchronized(self) {
if (sharedInstance == nil) {
sharedInstance = [[MyClass alloc] init];
}
}
return sharedInstance;
}
The benefit of dispatch_once() over this is that it's faster. It's also semantically cleaner, because the entire idea of dispatch_once() is "perform something once and only once", which is precisely what we're doing.
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