Jacques Fortier

@jacquesf
622 Followers
48 Following
348 Posts
Instagramhttps://instagram.com/jacquesf
Bird Photographyhttps://jacquesfortierart.com
Show threadJacques Fortier1d ago
@fay59 Fél-C
Show threadJacques Fortier3d ago
@Sonikku
Jacques Fortier3d ago
Good morning to everyone except our idiot cats who learned how to open drawers last night
Show threadJacques Fortier4d ago
@fay59 lol, it’s called twitching for a reason
Show threadJacques Fortier6d ago
@fay59 the worst is people driving below the limit on winding mountain roads who stomp on the gas once they get to the nice straight section … with the passing lane.
Jacques FortierJun 13
Swift LanguageJun 12
Memory-safe. 13% faster on average. ⚡️ The TrueType hinting interpreter in macOS and iOS has been rewritten in Swift, replacing the original C implementation. Pixel-perfect accuracy was validated across 27 million glyphs. And the results: https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/
Jacques FortierJun 13
Ben CohenJun 12

RE: https://mastodon.social/@airspeedswift/116716470741905934

Interested in learning more about how we're using Swift at lower levels? @numist writes about his work on the #swift rewrite of the TrueType interpreter on the swift.org blog:

https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/

Jacques FortierJun 9
Ben CohenJun 8
Whenever people ask me “what are you most excited about this year?” at conference time, it’s always these low level improvements to the OS written in #swift you wouldn’t normally hear about so it’s great to hear @holly give some of them a shout out.
Jacques FortierJun 9
Devon MaloneyJun 9

> "For the 27 releases, we've started writing parts of the core operating system kernel in Swift."

Swift for the Kernel was an awesome project to work on this year! I'm very happy to have been able to make these first steps towards a truly memory-safe kernel possible :)

Show threadJacques FortierJun 1
@fay59 in Europe it’s measured in L/€