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Marc-Antoine Scheurer

2010

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Optimizing iOS applications

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Agilité iPhone Java Incubateur

8:15 Accueil des participantsAccueil des participantsAccueil des participantsAccueil des participants

8:40 Mot des organisateurs & Criée des orateursMot des organisateurs & Criée des orateursMot des organisateurs & Criée des orateursMot des organisateurs & Criée des orateurs

9:00 Keynote de Nicolas Martignole (30 minutes)Keynote de Nicolas Martignole (30 minutes)Keynote de Nicolas Martignole (30 minutes)Keynote de Nicolas Martignole (30 minutes)

9:40

10:40

- A1 -Le terrain Agile

Jean-Philippe Vigniel

- I1-Hello iPhone

Stephane Tavera

- J1 -NOSQL also means RDF stores: an

Android case studyFabrizio Giudci

- X1 -Le développement durable

Dominic Williams

11:00

12:00

- A2 -Integration of User Centered Design

in Agile Development of RIAJ. Borkenhagen, J. Desmazières

- I2 -Développement d'une application

iPhone pilotée par les testsEmmanuel Etasse, Van-Charles Tran

- J2 -La Tequila du développement Web

Nicolas Martignole

- X2 -Cloud Computing: anatomie et

pratiqueMarc-Elian Bégin

12:20

13:20

- A3 -Adoption de l'Agilité par les usages

Xavier Warzee

- I3 -Distribution d'applications iPhone

en Entreprise: Réalisation d'un AppStore interne

Géraud de Laval

- J3 -Vaadin - Rich Web Applications in

Server-side Java without Plug-ins or JavaScript

Joonas Lehtinen

- X3 -Les DVCS sont vos amis

Sébastien Douche

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14h50

15h50

- A4 - Scrum, introduction et mise en

oeuvre avec iceScrumClaude Aubry

- I4 -Agile iOS Development

Jérôme Layat, Alexander Osterwalder

- J4 -JAX-RS and Java EE 6

Paul Sandoz

- X4 -IT Design & Ergonomy

Pascal Petit, Aude Lussigny

16h10

17h10

- A5 -Agilité : 10 ans déjà

Thierry Cros

- I5 -Optimizing iOS applications

Marc-Antoine Scheurer

- J5 -Ecrivez et automatisez vos tests

fonctionnels avec jBehaveXavier Bourguignon

- X5 -NoSQL : Enfin de la biodiversité

dans l'écosystème des BDOlivier Mallassi

17h30

18h30

- A6 -Lean engineering

Jean-Christophe Dubail

- I6 -iPhone et Agile, l'amour vache

Guillaume Duquesnay

- J6 -Let's make this test suite run faster

David Gageot

- X6 -The feel of Scala

Mario Fusco

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Optimizing iOS Applications

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Optimizing is...

• Risky: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”

• A hardware problem: “Buy a faster computer”

• Time consuming: “I don’t have time for performance work”

• Complicated: “I don’t know where to start or what to do”


Why?

• For the user: better experience

• For you: beat the competition

• For the OS: watch out the watchdog


A Hardware Problem:Limited Resources

3G 3GS 4 iPadCPU ARM 11 ARM Cortex A8 A4 (Cortex A8) A4 (Cortex A8)clock 412 MHz 600 MHz 1 GHz 1GHz

L1 32 KB 64 KB 64 KB 64 KBL2 - 256 KB 640 KB 640 KB

GPUtriangles /

s

PowerVR MBX Lite0.6 M

PowerVR SGX5.2 M

A4 (PowerVR SGX)28 M ??

A4 (PowerVR SGX)28 M ??

RAM 128 MB 256 MB 512 MB 256 MBavailable 40 MB 150 MB 400 MB ? 150 MB

Flashavailable

8 - 32 GB2 GB

16 - 32 GB2 GB

16 - 32 GB2 GB

16 - 32 - 64 GB2 GB

Screen 480x320 480x320 960x640 1024x728More GPS Compass Gyroscope

Battery 6h on WiFi 9h on WiFi 10h on WiFi 10-12h video


Where to start?Measuring Performance

• Guessing often does not work

• Measure - Change - Measure

• Use measuring tools


Measuring Tools

• NSLog

• Instruments

• Simulator


NSLog

NSDate *startTime = [NSDate date];... NSLog (@"Elapsed time: %.3f", -[startTime timeIntervalSinceNow]);


InstrumentsTool Introduced

Objective C 1988

Interface Builder 1988*

Xcode 1988†

Instruments 2007‡

† Project Builder, renamed Xcode in 2003‡ Shikari, Shark in 2002

* SOS Interface, 1984-1986 (LISP, Mac)


Instruments• Profiling tool

• CPU

• Memory

• CoreAnimation

• CoreData

• OpenGL

• Power

• etc.


Simulator

• Software simulator ≠ hardware emulator

Simulator 3G

i386 ARM

2.5 GHz 400 MHz

Unlimited memory 40 MB

• Measure and test on oldest supported device (3G)

• Simulator OK to check memory usage


Better user experience

1. Responsive application

2. No crash (or kill by the watchdog)

3. Save battery life


1. Responsive applications


Time

• Faster code

• makes applications more responsive

• uses less power


Time

• Animation

• Objective C

• C and ARM code generation

• Frameworks

• File system


Animation

• Demo


Animation

• Scrolling at 60 fps

• Reuse identifier

• Opaque views

• Reuse formatters

• UINib (4.x)


Objective C

• Blocks

• IMP caching

[array indexesOfObjectsWithOptions:NSEnumerationConcurrent passingTest:^(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) { return [obj test:value]; } ]


• Demo

Objective C


C and ARM Code Generation

• Demo


C and ARM Code Generation

• ARM v6 (2G, 3G)

• ARM v7 (3GS, 4)

• -Os vs -O3

• Floating points: remove Thumb on v6

• Contiguous memory, shadow variables, etc.


Frameworks

• Foundation

• Accelerate

• Grand Central Dispatch


Foundation

• NSMutableArray, NSMutableString

• insert O(N), O(1) at begin and end

• NSMutableDictionary, NSMutableSet

• lookup O(1) with good hash function

• NSMutableIndexSet

• Store integers without NSNumber


Accelerate• ARM v6• Integer unit with 16 registers

• Hardware floating-point (VFP)

• 32 single precision registers

• 16 double precision registers

• ARM v7• Integer unit with 16 registers

• Legacy VFP support

• NEON: 16 128-bit vector registers

• Single precision floating-point uses NEON

• NEON can decode MP3 on 10MHz CPU


Accelerate

• Makes using VFP and NEON easy

• Demo


Accelerate

• 2000 APIs for hardware accelerated math

• vDSP (Digital Signal Processing)

• Fourier transforms

• BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms)

• Matrix product

• LAPACK (Linear algebra)

• Solving system of linear equations

• Later? vImage, vForce, ...


Grand Central Dispatch

• Concurrent programming

• Multicore or single core

• Easier and lighter than threads

• Use to move long processes off the main thread

• dispatch_async()


• Demo

Grand Central Dispatch


File system

• Access to Flash memory is relatively slow

• Speed vary a lot from device to device

• For large files use memory mapped files+[NSData dataWithContentsOfMappedFile:]

• Long I/O off the main thread


File System• I/O of small amount of data:

• NSUserDefaults

• Property Lists

• NSArchiver

• I/O of large amount of data:

• Incremental formats

• Databases (CoreData)


Property Lists• Binary Format 2-3x faster than XML

• Use NSPropertyListSerialization

-[NSArray writeToFile:atomically:] -[NSDictionary writeToFile:atomically:] -[NSString writeToFile:atomically:encoding:error:]

NSData *data = [NSPropertyListSerialization dataWithPropertyList:dictionary format:NSPropertyListBinaryFormat_v1_0 options:0 error:NULL]; [data writeToFile:path atomically:YES];

• Slow:

• Fast:


NSArchiver

• Not an incremental file format


Database

• Use CoreData

• Do not import large quantity of data...

• Add object stores instead


Database Search

• Unicode string comparisons are expensive

• Use normalized derived attribute (without accents)

• Use <= and < instead of BEGINSWITH

• Prefer prefix searching


Database Search• Point de Vue app: 25’000 records

3G Before After

[[each name] rangeOfString:searchString options:(NSAnchored| NSCaseInsensitive| NSDiacriticInsensitiveSearch)].location != NSNotFound

[[each asciiName] hasPrefix:searchString ]

“l” 0.704 0.450

“la” 0.032 0.024

“lau” 0.010 0.008

“laus” 0.001 0.001


2. No Crash


Activity Watchdog

Maximum Allowed TimeMaximum Allowed Time

Launch 20 s

Resume 10 s

Suspend 10 s

Quit 6 s

Operation 10 min


Memory Watchdog“Jetsam”

• Watches memory pressure

• Issues low memory warning

• Instant termination of application


Memory

• No swap

• (but yes: virtual memory)

• Memory usage also impacts time

• allocation time,

• unloading of executable code, ...


Memory Usage

• Avoid

• spikes

• leaks

• abandoned memory

• zombies


Memory Spikes

• Be smart with autorelease

• Process large quantities of data in batches

• Nested autorelease pools


• Demo

Memory Spikes


Memory Leaks

• Allocated memory that is inaccessible

• Unbalanced retain/release

• Forget to release property’s original value

• Leaks Instrument examines heap for leaked memory, identify allocation

• Xcode: Build and Analyze


Abandoned Memory

• Wasted memory

• Accessible but never used

• Memory should not grow without bounds

• Detect with Allocation Instrument: “heap shots”


Zombies

• Messages send to deallocated object

• Detect with Zombies template

• or Allocations “Enable zombie detection”

• Simulator only


3. Energy


Energy (iPhone 3G)

• 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS: 2 W

• CPU + GPU: 800 mW

• Screen: 200 mW


Radios and sensors

• Network

• CoreLocation

• CoreMotion


Network

• Bandwidth usage impacts time and power

• Use compact protocols (JSON vs XML)


3G

• 3G networks require phones stay in high-power state for a few seconds after last packet is sent or received

• Limit number of connections

• Do not poll

• Use compact data formats


WiFi & 2G

• Less power than 3G

• 3G > 2G > WiFi

• Allowed to idle immediately

• 2G much slower


CPU• Burst

• Do not poll, use events

• Accelerate: more power, less energy

Power

Time

with NEONwithout NEON


CoreLocation

• Use minimum required accuracy

GPS kCLLocationAccuracyBest

GPS kCLLocationAccuracyNearestTenMeters

WiFi kCLLocationAccuracyHundredMeters

Cell / WiFi kCLLocationAccuracyKilometer


CoreLocation

• distanceFilter

• how often you receive location changed notifications

• default: all changes, many events, high CPU usage

• stopUpdatingLocation

• when good enough accuracy, switch GPS off.


CoreMotion

• Same thing

• Turn sensors off when in background (4.x)


Energy diagnostics


Energy usage

• Works on

• 3GS

• 4

• iPod 2 & 3

Level Battery life

20 Less than 1 hour

10 About 10 hours

1 More than 20 hours


Measure on the go• Enable device

to collect data

• Import in Instruments


Summary


Instruments’ instrumentsCPU

Memory

File System

Core Data

Graphics

Energy


Instruments Wireless• Connect device with USB

• Hold alt while choosing target

• Choose wireless device

• Disconnect from USB


When?

• All the time


Useful links

• Xcode Developer documentation

• Applehttp://developer.apple.com/iphone

http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2010/

• Developer forumshttp://www.iphonedevsdk.com/

http://stackoverflow.com

• Developer classesStanford iPhone Application Development (english, free) sur iTunesU http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.3124430053.03124430055

Sen:te (french, paying)http://www.iphone-class.com

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http://developer.apple.com/iphone

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