For the second benchmark I am going to explore the performance of .NET rendering using an Uno Platform benchmark. As I wrote in this previous post I’m doing a series of benchmarks of .NET and JVM on Apple Silicon. While there are impressive native benchmarks the fact it will be some time before these two runtimes natively support it, I have to factor in the potential hit and problems with Rosetta. How much of a performance hit is there and will it be enough that applications targeting it will have problems? All code and results are published here.

As I wrote in this previous post I’m doing a series of benchmarks of .NET and JVM on Apple Silicon. While there are impressive native benchmarks the fact it will be some time before these two runtimes natively support it we have to factor in the potential hit and problems with Rosetta. How much of a performance hit is there and will it be enough that applications targeting it will have problems? All code and results are published here. For the first benchmark we are going to explore the performance of JavaFX.

Apple Silicon is looking pretty impressive. I’m impressed enough to replace my 2018 MacBook Pro with the shitty keyboard with a new M1 MBP. All the benchmarks though are useless to me since I’m primarily a .NET and JVM developer who will be running under emulation in Rosetta for the foreseeable future. I intend to quantify the performance of the new Macs versus the old Intel ones with a suite of benchmarks specifically targeting .NET and JVM runtimes.

I worked out how to do basic string file input and output for Kotlin Native using their standard POSIX libraries. The code for these methods is at the bottom. This article explores it in more detail if you are interested.

As the weather gets cooler in lots of the world a nice hearty but healthy dish is so much more tantalizing. If you are a big fan of rustic sourdough breads then this is a perfect dish that captures all of the joyous flavors along with some healthy vegetables. I first discovered this recipe in this Guardian article but I’ve since made a few tweaks to it. My go to bread for this is either the Yohan Ferrant Do Nothing Bread or some Tartine bread.