Your app embeds 40 dynamic frameworks. What gets better and what gets worse if you switch them to static linking?
Static linking removes the dyld loading, so launch is faster and dead code can be stripped, but when the app and an extension share a library the code is duplicated in each binary and resource bundles get awkward.
Performance and debuggingMultiple choiceAdvanced
Which of these actually reduce the pre-main part of app launch (before main() is called)?…
#mergeable-libraries #dyld #launch-time
Build and distributionShort answerAdvanced
What stages does a Swift source file go through before it's a binary running on an iPhone?
#static-library #dyld
App lifecycle and systemShort answerBasics
From the moment the app icon is tapped on the home screen until the first screen is…
#dyld #launch-time
Performance and debuggingShort answerAdvanced
You take over an app whose cold start takes more than 3 seconds. How would you split up…
#dyld #launch-time