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Re:Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service... by dehrmann on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @08:50PM (#44176269)
I would have guessed it's boxed primitives.
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Re:Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service... by throwaway2037 on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @01:57AM (#44177622)
Is that still a thing in 2025? There are so many third party libraries that offer primitive collections. Example: https://github.com/carrotsearch/hppc
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Re:Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service... by dehrmann on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @11:29AM (#44181818)
If you're not specifically concerned about memory use, why would you use a third-party library?
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