MishraAnurag

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GCD: Throttling a blocks execution rate(github.com)
1 points by MishraAnurag 10y ago|0 comments
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by MishraAnurag 11y ago
Great post. Soft errors have a different meaning altogether in electronics. It's an interesting read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error
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Caching audio streamed using AVPlayer(vombat.tumblr.com)
2 points by MishraAnurag 12y ago|0 comments
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Simple tip for improving error handling for iOS applications(vombat.tumblr.com)
1 points by MishraAnurag 12y ago|0 comments
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Synchronizing class methods in Objective-C(vombat.tumblr.com)
14 points by MishraAnurag 12y ago|9 comments
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by MishraAnurag 13y ago
Looks like a scam.. The app icon for Flappy Bird is nowhere to be found on that screen.
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by MishraAnurag 13y ago
Using the relevant SQLite implementation directly cuts down that time in half to about 3.5-3.7 seconds over a few runs.
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by MishraAnurag 13y ago
That's a fair point. NSDateFormatter is fast enough and you should never replace it for anything else unless you know for sure that it's a problem. Well that goes for any optimization. In my particular case, it was really a bottle
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by MishraAnurag 13y ago
I'd suggest using timegm instead of mktime, or set the TZ environment variable to UTC to ensure all implementations return an identical date. I ran the same tests and found that the strptime was quite fast, but gmtime was taking most o
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by MishraAnurag 13y ago
Are you using mktime to get the unix timestamp? That might be the slower part as opposed to strptime.
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by MishraAnurag 13y ago
A link to the source code is present in the article. You can find it here - https://gist.github.com/AnuragMishra/6474321 The NSDateFormatter is already being cached. That was my first suspicion on finding this issue to
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by MishraAnurag 13y ago
That's interesting. I'm not sure of the significance of that year or how that relates to the algorithm in Meeus' book. This web page talks about the date algorithms in Meeus' book in some detail but the math is beyond me
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by MishraAnurag 13y ago
That was to make a fair comparison between the two approaches since NSDateFormatter's dateFromString gives an NSDate, while SQLite was handing back an integer. But you are right. In production, it makes more sense to let SQLite handle
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Date parsing performance on iOS (NSDateformatter vs sqlite)(vombat.tumblr.com)
88 points by MishraAnurag 13y ago|60 comments
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IOS 7 and Skeuomorphism(vombat.tumblr.com)
2 points by MishraAnurag 13y ago|0 comments