February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
11h 59m
English
book
iOS and macOS™ Performance Tuning: Cocoa®, Cocoa Touch®, Objective-C®, and Swift™
by Marcel Weiher
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12. I/O: Pitfalls and Techniques
Despite the fact that I/O performance has increased more slowly than the improvements in other parts of the system, it still is fast enough for low-rate or reasonably small I/O...in computer terms. In human terms, that is still incredibly fast. For example, the Project Gutenberg version of a reasonably large novel such as Moby Dick is just 1.2 MB in size. On my SSD-equipped MacBook Pro, I can copy this file 280 times per second using a shell script. The fastest typist in the world, on the other hand, types less than 20 characters per second, so in case we were working on our Moby Dick-sized novel, we would be able to save the entire novel on every keystroke and have plenty of time left for other tasks. For many ...
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