Performance issues with Foundation.Data

[benrimmington]

November 2016:

Performance Refinement of Data

Performance Refinement of Data Introduction In Swift 3 the Foundation team introduced a new structural type to represent NSData exposed into Swift. Data allows developers to interact with binary data with value semantics, which is often more appropriate than using pointers like UnsafeMutablePointer. Having an encapsulating type to abstract the common operations is often quite advantageous to tasks like parsing, where types like String may not be appropriate for or have hidden performance "got…