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Boost Your Swift Code : Reduce compile time
After going through lots of articles, I researched the things to improve swift compile time which can increase your xcode project build time. This article focused only on points, not a lengthy theory.
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1. Remove dead code
When you start working on a project, and as it evolves, code becomes unreachable to handle it. Then, find the dead code in the project and remove it.
- Delete unused code
- Delete unused files
- Delete unused method parameters
- Reduced conditional statements if not required
2. Benchmarking for extensions vs class method
Do the benchmarking for extensions & class methods. Both are different in compile time. If you want, you can read it more in depth here.
3. Use type annotations
Adding a type annotation to the variable tells the compiler that x represents a String. It does not have to infer anything here and the code is that much more readable to humans. The code builds faster and is easier to maintain.
let x : String = “This is type annotation example”
