Welcome to my web site. My name is Mike Ash. I'm a programmer at Plausible Labs by night, and a glider pilot by day. I'm an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Université d'Orléans . I currently reside in the Washington, DC area.
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Since the introduction of Swift, speed has been a key selling point. Indeed, it's right in the name of the language. It's said to be faster than dynamic languages like Python or JavaScript, potentially faster than Objective-C, and even claimed to be faster than C for certain cases. But how exactly does it do it?