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by askyourmother 3679 days ago
Use C or C++ instead?
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b34r 3679 days ago
RTFA dude. The end product was _faster_ than C.
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dkersten 3679 days ago
Is it still faster than C with this mistake fixed? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11713486
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tempodox 3679 days ago
> _faster_ than C

How do you know? There is no data on the respective machines and environments. A number from a tweet and a number from a blog post do not make such data.

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mzaks 3679 days ago
Performance test run on Travis CI in a virtual machine https://travis-ci.org/mzaks/FlatBuffersSwift

function called for decode+use+dealloc https://github.com/mzaks/FlatBuffersSwift/blob/master/FlatBu...

function called for direct: https://github.com/mzaks/FlatBuffersSwift/blob/master/FlatBu...

function called for using struct: https://github.com/mzaks/FlatBuffersSwift/blob/master/FlatBu...

Everything is on Github, you are welcome to try it out on your own machine.

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Cyph0n 3679 days ago
...after a ton of ugly workarounds and optimizations. I wonder how much slower than C a straight C++ port would be.
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