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Dart: Scalable Application Development
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Dart: Scalable Application Development

by Davy Mitchell, Sergey Akopkokhyants, Ivo Balbaert
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
873 pages
18h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
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Profiling and benchmarking your app

One of the key success factors of Dart is its performance. The Dart VM has a built-in optimizer to increase the execution speed. This optimizer needs a certain amount of execution time before it has enough information to do its work. This is no problem for an app in production, but when testing, you must ensure this condition is met. In this recipe, we are going to focus on how to best benchmark your application.

Getting ready

The benchmark_harness package from the Dart team is built specifically for this purpose. Add it to the pubspec.yaml file and import it in your code. We will illustrate this with the template_benchmark app. Also, make sure that all the issues detected by the checked mode are solved (because ...

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