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DispatchGroup

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DispatchGroup is a counter of unfinished tasks in GCD. You "enter" the group before starting work and "leave" when it completes; when the counter hits zero the group notifies you. Tasks may live on any queues and be asynchronous — the group only cares about balanced enter()/leave().

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