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Swift High Performance

By : Kostiantyn Koval
Book Image

Swift High Performance

By: Kostiantyn Koval

Overview of this book

Swift is one of the most popular and powerful programming languages for building iOS and Mac OS applications, and continues to evolve with new features and capabilities. Swift is considered a replacement to Objective-C and has performance advantages over Objective-C and Python. Swift adopts safe programming patterns and adds modern features to make programming easier, more flexible, and more fun. Develop Swift and discover best practices that allow you to build solid applications and optimize their performance. First, a few of performance characteristics of Swift will be explained. You will implement new tools available in Swift, including Playgrounds and REPL. These will improve your code efficiency, enable you to analyse Swift code, and enhance performance. Next, the importance of building solid applications using multithreading concurrency and multi-core device architecture is covered, before moving on to best practices and techniques that you should utilize when building high performance applications, such as concurrency and lazy-loading. Finally, you will explore the underlying structure of Swift further, and learn how to disassemble and compile Swift code.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Swift High Performance
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we covered two more tools that can improve an application's performance: lazy loading and lazy execution techniques. First, we explained why it's important to make code behave lazily, when to do so, and in which way it can be implemented. Next, we showed you the lazy loading feature built into the Swift language and how to use it with global variables, type properties, and lazy stored properties.

In the rest of the chapter, we covered how to make a collection behave lazily. We used many functions with a lazy collection and showed the differences between a collection and a sequence.

In the next and final chapter, Discovering All of the Underlying Swift Power, we will take a look at some more advanced tools that will help you analyze the power of Swift, and go through a quick recap of what you learned throughout the book.