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numist / imageComparators.m
Created March 6, 2013 07:36
Assuming you have CGImageRefs already, this is—so far—the fastest method I've found to compare them. If you don't have CGImageRefs, the process of manufacturing them may well wipe out all your time savings over other options available to you.
static BOOL (^imagesDifferByCGDataProviderComparison)(CGImageRef, CGImageRef) = ^(CGImageRef a, CGImageRef b) {
BOOL result = NO;
CGDataProviderRef aDataProvider = CGImageGetDataProvider(a);
CGDataProviderRef bDataProvider = CGImageGetDataProvider(b);
// It turns out that the CGDataProvider's pages are set copy-on-write, so these calls are not nearly as expensive as you think.
CFDataRef aData = CGDataProviderCopyData(aDataProvider);
CFDataRef bData = CGDataProviderCopyData(bDataProvider);
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numist / gist:5350030
Created April 9, 2013 22:36
ARC for malloc!
NSMutableData *dataObj = [NSMutableData dataWithLength:length];
objc_setAssociatedObject(self, key, dataObj, OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN);
void *data = [dataObj mutableBytes];
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numist / gist:5623807
Created May 21, 2013 22:32
Internal refCount for tracking object liveness in a way that avoids the object doing meaningful work when it's supposed to be dead/dying.
// Example ignores concurrency protection on internalRefCount for brevity.
// Not compatible with ARC, for obvious reasons (but could be implemented in part with a non-ARC category?).
@interface Foo ()
@property (nonatomic, assign) NSUInteger internalRefCount;
@end
@implementation Foo
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numist / NSCoder+NNSecureRectCoding.h
Created July 6, 2013 18:54
NSCoder's rect encoding/decoding is not compliant with NSSecureCoding. Here's a category that provides methods for encoding/decoding rects in a secure manner.
//
// NSCoder+NNSecureRectCoding.h
// Switch
//
// Created by Scott Perry on 07/06/13.
// Copyright © 2013 Scott Perry.
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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numist / NNMainThreadGuard.m
Last active December 22, 2015 19:09
This is a guard that tracks down Cocoa access on threads other than main. Works because a lot of calls internally call setNeedsDisplay or setNeedsLayout. Won't catch everything, but it's very lightweight and usually does the job. You might need to add DEBUG=1 to your preprocessor macros if you haven't done that already.
//
// NNMainThreadGuard.m
//
// Mostly taken from the commercial iOS PDF framework http://pspdfkit.com and Switch https://github.com/numist/Switch.
// Copyright © 2013 Peter Steinberger and Scott Perry. All rights reserved.
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
//
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numist / gist:6929738
Last active December 25, 2015 06:09
No clang diagnostic pragmas, the only trick is stuffing NSAutoreleasePool into a local to avoid the deprecation-under-ARC warning.
// Built for ARC, remove the __bridge and it should work in MRC as well.
void *NNCFAutorelease(CFTypeRef cfObject)
{
if (cfObject) {
static Class arp = Nil;
static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
arp = NSClassFromString(@"NSAutoreleasePool");
Assert(arp);
});
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numist / Poser.m
Created October 17, 2013 17:43 — forked from erisdev/Poser.m
#import <objc/runtime.h>
#import <stdlib.h>
// declare some of the Objective-C runtime's private parts where we can see them
typedef struct _NXMapTable NXMapTable;
extern NXMapTable *gdb_objc_realized_classes;
extern void *NXMapInsert(NXMapTable *table, const void *key, const void *value);
@implementation NSObject (Poser)
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numist / example.m
Created January 3, 2014 06:59
Result memoization for object values that are both immutable and expensive to compute.
#import "memoize.h"
@implementation Example
- (id)null;
{
return NNMemoize(^{
sleep(1);
return [NSNull null];
});
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numist / gist:9218846
Created February 25, 2014 22:03 — forked from kyleve/gist:8213806
/**
Provides the ability to verify key paths at compile time.
If "keyPath" does not exist, a compile-time error will be generated.
Example:
// Verifies "isFinished" exists on "operation".
NSString *key = SQKeyPath(operation, isFinished);
// Verifies "isFinished" exists on self.
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numist / UIApplication+DelegateMultiDispatch.h
Created April 5, 2014 07:26
Simple category to UIApplication allowing objects to subscribe to application events via a UIApplicationDelegate-like protocol instead of notifications.
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@protocol NNApplicationSubscriber <NSObject>
@optional
- (void)applicationDidBecomeActive:(UIApplication *)application;
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didChangeStatusBarFrame:(CGRect)oldStatusBarFrame;
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didChangeStatusBarOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)oldStatusBarOrientation;
- (void)applicationDidEnterBackground:(UIApplication *)application;
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application;