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Swift High Performance

You're reading from   Swift High Performance Leverage Swift and enhance your code to take your applications to the next level

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785282201
Length 212 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kostiantyn Koval Kostiantyn Koval
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Preface 1. Exploring Swift's Power and Performance FREE CHAPTER 2. Making a Good Application Architecture in Swift 3. Testing and Identifying Slow Code with the Swift Toolkit 4. Improving Code Performance 5. Choosing the Correct Data Structure 6. Architecting Applications for High Performance 7. The Importance of Being Lazy 8. Discovering All the Underlying Swift Power 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.

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