Danger. Don’t Destroy Swift’s Performance with These mistakes

Perform well…

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You can write functions and statements that don’t add any value to your code (at least as far as the Swift compiler is concerned). Since Swift can’t simply skip these functions you might see your performance dropping off.

Let us prevent this, let us put mitigations in place now. How? Speed is important so let’s read on and learn a few quick tips in Swift.

Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

Prerequisites:

• Some understanding of Logging in Swift would be useful (guide HERE)

Terminology

Build: A build is a version of an App

Build Configuration: The configuration for an Xcode build

Debug: identify and remove errors

Logging: A way to capture log messages to memory and disk

Logging to the Console