4. CPU Example: XML Parsing
My forays into XML parsing started long before Cocoa had acquired XML parsers, at a company (www.infopark.com) building a Web Content Management System (CMS) in Objective-C on Solaris and a bunch of other Unix platforms. Apple had just been acquired by NeXT (or was it the other way around?), so even Cocoa was actually called OPENSTEP and barely starting to morph into Yellow Box on Rhapsody.
You will therefore not see any “newfangled” technologies such as Swift, ARC, or even Objective-C 2.0 properties. However, historical accuracy is only one small reason; after all, it would have been easy to update the code. The more important reason is that these technologies are not adequate at these performance levels. When the ...
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