Edge Cases 68: Improve Your App's Performance with This One Weird Tip

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Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about performance, including the difference ways to define performance improvements, techniques Andrew himself has used, and tips from Apple’s WWDC sessions. Plus: bcrypt is soooo 2008.

Links:

• A Cryptography Tourist « Edge Cases
• PBKDF2 « Wikipedia
• scrypt « Wikipedia
• In the Magical World of Threads « Edge Cases
• Threads Are Interesting « Edge Cases
• WWDC 2013 Session 211 Core Data Performance Optimization and Debugging
• Confirmed: Objective-C ARC is slow. Don’t use it! (sarcasm off) « Learn & Master Cocos2D Game Development
• The Language of Cross-Platform Development « Edge Cases
• WWDC 2013 Session 204 What’s New with Multitasking
• When You’re New to a Codebase « Edge Cases
• WWDC 2013 Session 224 Designing Code for Performance
• WWDC 2013 Session 704 Building Efficient OS X Apps
• WWDC 2013 Session 713 Accelerate Framework

Rejected Episode Titles:

• My Neopet Dog Is Not Eating My Digital Homework
• “Ass-Crypt?”
• Sequential Memory-Hard
• The Anti-Performance Thing
• bcrypt Is Old and Busted
• Talking out of My “S”, as It Were
• If You Get to Ten I Think You Get Some Steak Knives
• All the Sessions Tend to Be a Blur
• Another Head Fake, I See
• A Nice Little Sneaky Way to Do It
• That Was Really Unfortunate
• You’re Saying “Edge Cases” a Lot During This Episode
• A Fairly Blunt Instrument, Quote Unquote
• Maybe I’m a Hypocrite
• It Seems to Be Fairly Badly Named
• I Suspect It’s Not Magic
• Money That You Pay For