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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

The lazy mindset


First, it is very important to understand the lazy pattern, how it works, how it could benefit an application's performance, and when to use it. It's also very important not to abuse it, because that would make code more complex and hard to read. Plus, it would be hard to follow the execution flow. Also, abusing it would decrease the overall application's performance.

The general idea of a lazy pattern is to defer the evaluation of an instruction until someone asks for the result of that instruction.

In general, code is executed instruction by instruction, starting at the top of a file or a function. Nowadays, our applications are more complex and consist of many files, windows, libraries, components, and layers, but they still execute code in the same way. Because our system gets bigger and bigger, it's important to make them lazy so that we don't have to perform all the work when we start the application. Let's learn a few techniques for making code lazy.

Separation

It's very...