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> The same [1] claims in "Visual Summary" that the "cycles/byte" is 1 for various PRNGs but http://xoshiro.di.unimi.it/ seems to show that the reason splitmix64 is not preferred ev…

You seem to be talking about a different kind of leakiness. In my mind, there are two kinds: conceptual and performance leakiness. You are talking about the latter. Pretty much any…

Which book(s) would you recommend?

I guess what I mean is styles besides gothic (undecorated strokes of even thickness) and those that mimic traditional calligraphy. I see a lot of other forms for Latin scripts, but…

I didn't phrase it well. I was specifically talking about the Baloo sample and how the typographic style is the same across scripts. Sorry, I am a layman, so I don't know the prope…

I always wondered why many non-Latin (mostly cursive) scripts have little variation across different typefaces. Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough? Well, the article mentions a sim…

In addition to the higher unit count there are a few bullet points in the article that indicate where saved/additional time is spent. From the sound of it, most importantly: "The D…

For reference, here is the video: https://youtu.be/MtzCLd93SyU?t=19m28s

You can explain things with more than a single picture. You can also play with pictures in your mind, and you can encourage students to do so by giving them more than one picture. …

I can't say anything about JSON serialization performance as I don't have experience with it. Your other points, though, seem a little handwavy to me. Or maybe I am reading them wr…

Did you compare it to a roughly equivalent Objective-C program? The top four entries in your profile data show retain, release and objc_msgSend. You will have those in Objective-C …

I can't speak for other people's code, but I regularly profile and read the machine code generated by the Swift compiler, at least for my hot loops. If you know what you are doing …