Chapter 1. Introduction: Why High Performance?
According to the Cambridge dictionary, one of the acceptations of performance is "How well a person, machine, etc. does a piece of work or an activity." If we put it together with "high" we can define it as the output or efficiency with which a task is being done.
High performance in software refers to the strategies that developers adopt to create pieces of software that can perform a process efficiently. When we are developing mobile software, this affects, but is not limited to, layout development, energy and battery management, security concerns, efficient multithreading, programming patterns, and debugging techniques.
There is a big difference between doing things, and doing things right. In a ...
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