Chapter 7
Tuning Performance and Memory Usage
Lately, people have grown to hate hourglasses, spinning beach balls, and “Please Wait” pop-ups. Although giving a visual clue that the computer is working beats giving no such clue and letting customers think their computers have locked up, better still would be to never have episodes of slowness that make users wait. You may not always be able to achieve that goal, but you should always try.
Fetching and storing data in a persistent store can take a long time, especially when mounds of data are involved. This chapter assures that you understand how Core Data helps you—and how you must help yourself—to make sure you don’t pepper your users with “Please Wait” spinners or, worse, an unresponsive application ...
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