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The Swift optimizer has matured dramatically since 2017, to the point where I think this benchmark would almost certainly not result in a 3x power usage/4x slowdown compared to C. …

I don’t know much about rust specifically, but the overflow traps happen in debug (i.e. -O0) builds, and are not emitted when optimizations are enabled. LLVM’s constant folding and…

There are tons of amazingly-smart people working on Swift at Apple right now

-swift-version 3 really just turns on some different paths through the parser and type checker to allow previously-valid Swift 3 code to survive to code generation time. They're bo…

I have the strange feeling this will really only be used to enforce the copyrights of large music and movie industry corporations and will not be effective at protecting the IP of …

This should be much higher. Thanks!

The author completely missed the point of named parameters. How am I supposed to know that the string argument of "make_window" is the title?

Why did I just implement this in Swift? https://github.com/harlanhaskins/Base65536.swift

Apple uses XMPP internally as a way to securely communicate. Doesn't really change much; just thought that'd be an interesting thing to throw out.

I'm a Computer Science House member -- Drink is still a staple of our organization! Where else can you get Jolt on campus? Also we've since made an awesome web app and iOS app for …

Surprisingly salient and cogent points for an article that's so hostile and willfully ignorant. The author is correct about when to use both, and I'm glad he doesn't discount struc…

>The move fast and break things approach Sounds like something I want no part in.

LLVM has a GitHub mirror, too. https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm

Why no mention of GCD here? GCD is very, very good at synchronizing access to shared resources. The most Cocoa-compatible way of handling background execution of expensive procedur…