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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
    @autoreleasepool {
        const long count = 10000000;
        const char *str1 = "hellohello"; //fits in a tagged pointer
        const char *str2 = "hellohelQo"; //at this character count, can only fit in a tagged pointer by using <8 bits per character, which requires dropping less frequently used chars like 'Q'
        const char *str3 = "Northern Sami"; //this string is encountered frequently enough that it's baked into a perfect hash table in CoreFoundation
        const char *str4 = "hellohellü"; //this string can't be tagged *and* can't be stored using an ASCII backing store

        NSDate *start = [NSDate date];

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We're a group of tech employees (@Catfish_Man, @jnadeau, @numist, @jauricchio, and @daagaak) interested in making sure
as many people as possible survive the current state of US politics. For each dollar we donate, our employer
will donate two. We're pooling our resources to do the same for you, so for each dollar you donate to the 
orgs below, we'll also donate one dollar to those orgs, and our employer will donate two: quadruple your donation!
We have $45k set aside for this, so we'll keep matching donations until we've matched that much or 72 hours have passed.

You can send me a tweet/DM (@Catfish_Man) with a screenshot of evidence that you donated (receipt page, whatever works, we're not picky).

Southern Poverty Law Center
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static id cachedObject;
static NSLock *lock;

id getCachedObject() {
    [lock lock];
    id result = [cachedObject retain];
    [lock unlock];
    return result;
}

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Let's Reinvent Modern CPU Caches!

In The Beginning, programs were hard-coded, entered directly with switches. Values would be input, and then results would output,
but couldn't really be stored. We'll draw this like so:

Input -> Fixed Calculations -> Output

An early improvement in generality was the addition of storage (ENIAC eventually gained 100 words of magnetic core memory),
leaving us with something along these lines:

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//  Created by David Smith on 5/29/17.
//  Copyright © 2017 Unseen University. All rights reserved.
//
//  Localization- and encoding-safe solution to Coraline Ada's challenge here: https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/869204799027372032
//  Very lightly tested. Probably contains bugs.

import Foundation

func tweetStorm(input uncanonicalizedInput:String, handle:String?) -> [String] {
    let input = uncanonicalizedInput.precomposedStringWithCanonicalMapping //twitter requires NFC

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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <time.h>
#import <os/lock.h>

#define ITERS 2000
#define NSEC_PER_ITER(time) (((double)time * (double)NSEC_PER_SEC) / (double)ITERS)

#define TEST(body, name) do {\
    start = [NSDate date];\
    for (int i = 0; i < ITERS; i++) {\

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As of iOS 11/macOS High Sierra, and only including ones in Foundation and CoreFoundation

Strings:

_NSCFString - a CFStringRef or CFMutableStringRef. This is the most common type of string object currently.
    - May have 8 bit (ASCII) or 16 bit (UTF-16) backing store
_NSCFConstantString - a compile time constant CFStringRef, like you'd get with @"foo"
    - May also be generated by dynamic string creation if matches a string in a pre-baked table of common strings called the StringROM
NSBigMutableString - an NSString backed by a CFStorage (https://github.com/opensource-apple/CF/blob/master/CFStorage.h) for faster handling of very large strings
NSCheapMutableString - a very limited NSMutableString that allows for zero-copy initialization. Used in NSFileManager for temporarily wrapping stack buffers.

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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <assert.h>

//Compile with `clang -Os -framework Foundation -fno-objc-arc inlinestorage.m -o inline, run with `inline clever` or `inline naive`

/*
 NaiveArray implements a simple immutable NSArray-like interface in probably the most obvious way: store a pointer to a C array of objects
 */
@interface NaiveArray : NSObject {
    NSUInteger count;

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//compile with "clang -framework Foundation -arch i386 failbuzz.m -o FizzBuzz"
//Yes, it only works in 32 bit
//No, I can't fix it to work correctly past 12 without coming up with a new implementation strategy, 
//or compiling a new CoreFoundation that caches more CFNumbers (…I did do that to be sure it worked though)

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <libgen.h>

static void setup(const char * argv[]) {
    for (int i = 1; i <= 100; i++) {

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func g(_ x: inout Int) {
    x = x * x
}

func f() { 
     var computed:Int { 
         get { return 5 } 
         set { print(newValue) } 
     } 
     g(&computed)