jordancoin/ios-skills-collection/arimunandar-ios-performance

// STRONG (default) - Increases retain count
class Parent {
    var child: Child?  // Strong reference
}
 
// WEAK - Does NOT increase retain count, becomes nil when deallocated
class Child {
    weak var parent: Parent?  // Weak to prevent retain cycle
}
 
// UNOWNED - Does NOT increase retain count, crashes if accessed after deallocation
class Customer {
    let card: CreditCard  // Customer owns the card
 
    init() {
        card = CreditCard(holder: self)
    }
}
 
class CreditCard {
    unowned let holder: Customer  // Card always has a holder
}

// ❌ RETAIN CYCLE - Closure captures self strongly
class ViewController: UIViewController {
    var onComplete: (() -> Void)?
 
    func setup() {
        onComplete = {
            self.doSomething()  // Strong capture!
        }
    }
}
 
// ✅ FIXED - Weak capture
class ViewController: UIViewController {
    var onComplete: (() -> Void)?
 
    func setup() {
        onComplete = { [weak self] in
            self?.doSomething()
        }
    }
}

// ❌ RETAIN CYCLE
protocol MyDelegate {
    func didComplete()
}
 
class Parent: MyDelegate {
    var child: Child?
 
    init() {
        child = Child()
        child?.delegate = self  // Strong reference back!
    }
}
 
class Child {
    var delegate: MyDelegate?  // Strong!
}
 
// ✅ FIXED - Weak delegate
protocol MyDelegate: AnyObject {  // Must be AnyObject for weak
    func didComplete()
}
 
class Child {
    weak var delegate: MyDelegate?  // Weak!
}

// ❌ RETAIN CYCLE - Timer retains target
class ViewController: UIViewController {
    var timer: Timer?
 
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        timer = Timer.scheduledTimer(
            timeInterval: 1.0,
            target: self,        // Timer retains self!
            selector: #selector(tick),
            userInfo: nil,
            repeats: true
        )
    }
}
 
// ✅ FIXED - Use closure-based timer with weak capture
class ViewController: UIViewController {
    var timer: Timer?
 
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        timer = Timer.scheduledTimer(withTimeInterval: 1.0, repeats: true) { [weak self] _ in
            self?.tick()
        }
    }
 
    deinit {
        timer?.invalidate()
    }
}

// Add to your ViewControllers to verify deallocation
deinit {
    print("✅ \(Self.self) deallocated")
}

# Launch Time Profiler
xcrun xctrace record --template "Time Profiler" --launch -- /path/to/app.app

# Track memory allocations
xcrun xctrace record --template "Allocations" --launch -- /path/to/app.app

# Detect memory leaks
xcrun xctrace record --template "Leaks" --launch -- /path/to/app.app

// Measure execution time
func measureTime(_ label: String, block: () -> Void) {
    let start = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent()
    block()
    let end = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent()
    print("⏱ \(label): \((end - start) * 1000)ms")
}
 
// Usage
measureTime("Load Data") {
    loadData()
}
 
// Using os_signpost for Instruments
import os.signpost
 
let log = OSLog(subsystem: "com.app", category: "Performance")
 
func loadData() {
    os_signpost(.begin, log: log, name: "Load Data")
    defer { os_signpost(.end, log: log, name: "Load Data") }
 
    // ... work
}

// ✅ OPTIMIZED TableView
final class OptimizedTableViewController: UIViewController {
 
    private let tableView: UITableView = {
        let tv = UITableView()
        tv.rowHeight = UITableView.automaticDimension
        tv.estimatedRowHeight = 60  // Provide estimate!
        return tv
    }()
 
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
 
        // Register cells for reuse
        tableView.register(MyCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "MyCell")
 
        // Prefetching for smooth scrolling
        tableView.prefetchDataSource = self
    }
}
 
extension OptimizedTableViewController: UITableViewDataSourcePrefetching {
    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, prefetchRowsAt indexPaths: [IndexPath]) {
        // Preload images or data for upcoming cells
        for indexPath in indexPaths {
            imageLoader.prefetch(url: items[indexPath.row].imageURL)
        }
    }
 
    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cancelPrefetchingForRowsAt indexPaths: [IndexPath]) {
        // Cancel preloading for cells no longer needed
        for indexPath in indexPaths {
            imageLoader.cancel(url: items[indexPath.row].imageURL)
        }
    }
}

final class OptimizedCell: UITableViewCell {
 
    // Use layer properties for shadows (GPU accelerated)
    override func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()
 
        // Rasterize complex views
        layer.shouldRasterize = true
        layer.rasterizationScale = UIScreen.main.scale
 
        // Opaque views are faster
        backgroundColor = .white
        isOpaque = true
    }
 
    override func prepareForReuse() {
        super.prepareForReuse()
        // Cancel any pending image loads
        imageView?.image = nil
        imageLoadTask?.cancel()
    }
}

// ✅ Downscale images to display size
extension UIImage {
    func downscaled(to size: CGSize) -> UIImage {
        let renderer = UIGraphicsImageRenderer(size: size)
        return renderer.image { _ in
            draw(in: CGRect(origin: .zero, size: size))
        }
    }
}
 
// ✅ Load images asynchronously
final class AsyncImageLoader {
    private let cache = NSCache<NSString, UIImage>()
    private var tasks: [URL: URLSessionTask] = [:]
 
    func load(url: URL, into imageView: UIImageView) {
        // Check cache first
        if let cached = cache.object(forKey: url.absoluteString as NSString) {
            imageView.image = cached
            return
        }
 
        // Load asynchronously
        let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url) { [weak self] data, _, _ in
            guard let data = data, let image = UIImage(data: data) else { return }
 
            // Cache the image
            self?.cache.setObject(image, forKey: url.absoluteString as NSString)
 
            DispatchQueue.main.async {
                imageView.image = image
            }
        }
        tasks[url] = task
        task.resume()
    }
 
    func cancel(url: URL) {
        tasks[url]?.cancel()
        tasks[url] = nil
    }
}

// ❌ SLOW - Deep view hierarchy
view.addSubview(container1)
container1.addSubview(container2)
container2.addSubview(container3)
container3.addSubview(label)
 
// ✅ FAST - Flat hierarchy
view.addSubview(label)
 
// ❌ SLOW - Transparent layers
view.backgroundColor = UIColor.black.withAlphaComponent(0.5)
 
// ✅ FAST - Opaque layers where possible
view.backgroundColor = .black
view.alpha = 0.5  // Or use solid color if acceptable

// ✅ Keep UI work on main thread
func updateUI(with data: Data) {
    DispatchQueue.main.async {
        self.label.text = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)
    }
}
 
// ✅ Heavy work off main thread
func processData() {
    Task.detached(priority: .userInitiated) {
        let result = await self.heavyComputation()
        await MainActor.run {
            self.updateUI(with: result)
        }
    }
}

// ❌ SLOW - Individual updates
for item in items {
    tableView.insertRows(at: [IndexPath(row: index, section: 0)], with: .automatic)
}
 
// ✅ FAST - Batch updates
tableView.performBatchUpdates {
    let indexPaths = items.indices.map { IndexPath(row: $0, section: 0) }
    tableView.insertRows(at: indexPaths, with: .automatic)
}

final class OptimizedNetworkClient {
    private let session: URLSession
 
    init() {
        let config = URLSessionConfiguration.default
 
        // Connection pooling
        config.httpMaximumConnectionsPerHost = 6
 
        // Caching
        config.urlCache = URLCache(
            memoryCapacity: 50_000_000,  // 50MB memory
            diskCapacity: 100_000_000     // 100MB disk
        )
        config.requestCachePolicy = .returnCacheDataElseLoad
 
        // Timeouts
        config.timeoutIntervalForRequest = 30
        config.timeoutIntervalForResource = 300
 
        session = URLSession(configuration: config)
    }
 
    func fetch<T: Decodable>(_ url: URL) async throws -> T {
        var request = URLRequest(url: url)
 
        // Enable compression
        request.setValue("gzip, deflate", forHTTPHeaderField: "Accept-Encoding")
 
        let (data, _) = try await session.data(for: request)
        return try JSONDecoder().decode(T.self, from: data)
    }
}

// ✅ Batch fetching
let request = NSFetchRequest<Entity>(entityName: "Entity")
request.fetchBatchSize = 20  // Fetch in batches
request.returnsObjectsAsFaults = true  // Lazy loading
 
// ✅ Background context for heavy operations
let backgroundContext = persistentContainer.newBackgroundContext()
backgroundContext.perform {
    // Heavy operations here
    try? backgroundContext.save()
}
 
// ✅ Batch delete (much faster than individual deletes)
let deleteRequest = NSBatchDeleteRequest(fetchRequest: fetchRequest)
try context.execute(deleteRequest)