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Re:Objective-C vs. Swift messages dispatch (2014) on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:25PM (#9814053)
It's strange. Swift promises so much in terms of performance. But it's still not really clear why it's under-delivering. Better method dispatch is exactly the sort of thing that should move it way beyond Obj-C...
Re:Dynamic software updating in C on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:23PM (#9814038)
This is super cool. And I see the reasoning for the systems Erlang is designed for. What I wonder is whether this kind of thing is really necessary for most web architectures?