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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

Console logs


The other powerful debugging tool, which you should already be familiar with, is the console log. Console logs can be used to log all types of information, including:

  • Operation results

  • Activities

  • Performance measurement

To log a statement to the console, you can use one of these functions:

  • print

  • debugPrint

Both of these functions accept any type.

To provide custom text formatting for print functions, you must conform to the CustomStringConvertible protocol, and for debugPrint, the CustomDebugStringConvertible protocol. Both of these protocols require the implementation of only one property. Let's create a simple Person type and implement custom log formatting:

struct Person {
  let name: String
  let age: Int
  
extension Person: CustomStringConvertible, CustomDebugStringConvertible {

  // CustomStringConvertible
  var description: String {
    return "Name: \(name)"
  }
  
  // CustomDebugStringConvertible
  var debugDescription: String {
    return "Name: \(name) age: \(age)"...