Casting Indirect Pointers With ARC

18 October 2012 – With Automatic Reference Counting, the Objective-C compiler is particularly finicky about casting between indirect pointers. I finally discover a way to cast without warnings.

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Not All That is Asynchronous is Fast

10 October 2012 – I discover and fix the issue causing the slowdown described in the last post.

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Slowing Things Down with Grand Central Dispatch

10 October 2012 – After updating my priority queue to use GCD, the timing tests indicate it actually slowed down slightly.

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Stuck on the Toll-Free Bridge

08 October 2012 – Automatic Reference Counting is straightforward when casting from Core Foundation types to Foundation types, but dealing with C arrays can confuse things.

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A Tale of Two Priority Queues

03 October 2012 – I compare two object-oriented priority queues for Objective-C objects. One using using Core Foundation, another using a C array.

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