I have an iOS app which uses Notification Service Extension (NSE) to process incoming notifications before it displayed to user.
In NSE, as part of initialization of my app, I need to iterate through a 2D array. There are roughly 65k iterations. I've noticed that this iteration fails somewhere in between and the NSE process crashes... I can say it crashes because the logs stopped in between the iterations. This results in 'unmodified notification' getting displayed immediately, whereas NSE is granted 30 sec of background execution.
My question is, why does this happen? The above iteration of 2D array works in app, but fails in NSE. Is there some kind of restriction on background extensions? - the documentation only talks about a time limit of 30sec. If there is some kind of restriction (like CPU and memory), how does one know this and code for it... since Apple did not provide any documentation. Or perhaps, there is a completely different reason?