Chapter 7. Wrap-up

We have come to the end of the book. I covered a lot of different topics related to working with app performance, but there are still many stones left unturned. Performance is a huge topic, and I don’t believe I can do it justice with a single book. Each of the different layers from the user interface all the way to the machine code executed by the CPUs contribute to the performance of the app, and all these areas have optimal and less-than-optimal ways of achieving the same results. To completely cover all the aspects of performance, I would need to write multiple volumes of text.

Somewhat surprisingly, books on performance are quite rare. If you go into your favorite book store and browse the computer science section, you ...

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