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.
10 October 2012 – I discover and fix the issue causing the slowdown described in the last post.
10 October 2012 – After updating my priority queue to use GCD, the timing tests indicate it actually slowed down slightly.
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.
03 October 2012 – I compare two object-oriented priority queues for Objective-C objects. One using using Core Foundation, another using a C array.