Swift High Performance

by Kostiantyn Koval

Leverage Swift and enhance your code to take your applications to the next level This book is aimed at experienced Swift developers wanting to optimize their programs on Apple platforms to optimize application performance. 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. This is a comprehensive guide to enhancing Swift programming techniques and methodology to enable faster application development.

212 pages, Paperback

Published November 6, 2015

Reviews

[Thongchai Kolyutsakul · Rating 3 out of 5]

- Need more proof reading as some sentence doesn't make sense.
- Code examples should be improved. For example, you provide 2 ways to use Threads. But you put 2 code example together without any separator and so I got confused. And in the case for @inlining, there's no example.