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Great post. Soft errors have a different meaning altogether in electronics. It's an interesting read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error

Looks like a scam.. The app icon for Flappy Bird is nowhere to be found on that screen.

Using the relevant SQLite implementation directly cuts down that time in half to about 3.5-3.7 seconds over a few runs.

That's a fair point. NSDateFormatter is fast enough and you should never replace it for anything else unless you know for sure that it's a problem. Well that goes for any optimizat…

I'd suggest using timegm instead of mktime, or set the TZ environment variable to UTC to ensure all implementations return an identical date. I ran the same tests and found that th…

Are you using mktime to get the unix timestamp? That might be the slower part as opposed to strptime.

A link to the source code is present in the article. You can find it here - https://gist.github.com/AnuragMishra/6474321 The NSDateFormatter is already being cached. That was my fi…

That's interesting. I'm not sure of the significance of that year or how that relates to the algorithm in Meeus' book. This web page talks about the date algorithms in Meeus' book …

That was to make a fair comparison between the two approaches since NSDateFormatter's dateFromString gives an NSDate, while SQLite was handing back an integer. But you are right. I…