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Swift Task Groups for Concurrent Operations

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Apple's TaskGroup API provides a structured way to manage dynamic subtasks in Swift concurrency. Using `withTaskGroup`, developers can add operations with `addTask`, controlling whether they run serially or concurrently. The group only completes when every subtask finishes, making it ideal for parallelizing work like downloading multiple gallery images.

TaskGroups conform to AsyncSequence, allowing results to be collected via a loop or the `reduce` operator. For operations that might throw errors, ThrowingTaskGroup is used. However, a single failing task doesn't crash the entire group; you must explicitly call `group.next()` to surface and handle individual errors, which also cancels pending work.

Cancellation is managed with `group.cancelAll()`. When a group is cancelled, `addTaskUnlessCancelled` prevents new tasks from starting, while `addTask` queues them only to be immediately cancelled. This granular control is essential for building responsive, efficient concurrent systems in modern Swift applications.