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mikeash on July 5, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Swift could potentially be faster than Objecti...

Are you measuring a 20x slowdown with optimizations turned off? That's the only way I can reproduce your results. That's a completely meaningless comparison if so.

mpweiher on July 8, 2014 [–]

Well, no, it's not meaningless in the context of TFA:

http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/compiler-writers-gone-wil...

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