Swift Performance (JSON parsing, for example)

vmartinelli · 2016-02-19T21:19:59.000Z

Hello.

This is not a request for change in the syntax and I don't if this is the
appropriate place, but for many Swift programmers experience and my own
experience, some things in Swift are very, very slow than Objective-C and
other languages. One of these things is parsing JSON data using
dictionaries/arrays (using Swift native types or NSDictionary, the result
is near the same).

You can read more info in articles like this one:

iMad

Swift Performance: Too Slow For Production | iMad

Much and more has been written about Apple’s new programming language, Swift. I even did a talk about it at Yow: Connected 2014. If you saw me there, you’d know that I’m not the biggest fan of Swift. I think the rollout of it has been an absolute...

Other thing: since I am talking indirectly of JSON parsing, there is some
expectation that it be handled natively on the Swift, with a suitable JSON
data format than just dictionary/array?

Regards,

-Van

Joe_Groff · 2016-02-19T21:22:41.000Z

That particular article is almost a year old. We looked at this very workload and improved its performance significantly in Swift 1.2.

-Joe

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On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:19 PM, Vanderlei Martinelli via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

Hello.

This is not a request for change in the syntax and I don't if this is the appropriate place, but for many Swift programmers experience and my own experience, some things in Swift are very, very slow than Objective-C and other languages. One of these things is parsing JSON data using dictionaries/arrays (using Swift native types or NSDictionary, the result is near the same).

You can read more info in articles like this one: Swift Performance: Too Slow For Production | iMad

Joe_Groff · 2016-02-19T21:23:22.000Z

See their followup here: Swift 1.2 Performance: Pretty Much Fine | iMad

-Joe

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On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:19 PM, Vanderlei Martinelli via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote:

Hello.

This is not a request for change in the syntax and I don't if this is the appropriate place, but for many Swift programmers experience and my own experience, some things in Swift are very, very slow than Objective-C and other languages. One of these things is parsing JSON data using dictionaries/arrays (using Swift native types or NSDictionary, the result is near the same).

You can read more info in articles like this one: Swift Performance: Too Slow For Production | iMad

That particular article is almost a year old. We looked at this very workload and improved its performance significantly in Swift 1.2.

Michael_Gottesman · 2016-02-20T05:22:13.000Z

Hello.

This is not a request for change in the syntax and I don't if this is the appropriate place, but for many Swift programmers experience and my own experience, some things in Swift are very, very slow than Objective-C and other languages. One of these things is parsing JSON data using dictionaries/arrays (using Swift native types or NSDictionary, the result is near the same).

You can read more info in articles like this one: Swift Performance: Too Slow For Production | iMad

Other thing: since I am talking indirectly of JSON parsing, there is some expectation that it be handled natively on the Swift, with a suitable JSON data format than just dictionary/array?

If you find a specific test case that is slower than objective-c, please create a benchmark and contribute it via pull request. The benchmarks are located in ./swift/benchmark/

Michael

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On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:19 PM, Vanderlei Martinelli via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

Regards,

-Van

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