Mahdi Bahrami presents a new high-performance IPv4 parsing algorithm in Swift that achieves ~3ns latency (~75 instructions, 15 CPU cycles) on Apple M6 processors. The work is part of swift-endpoint, aiming to bring unified networking types to Swift comparable to Go's netip and Rust's std::net.
Background
Swift currently lacks a unified, high-quality networking types library, with implementations scattered across Apple's proprietary Network framework and open-source swift-nio. The author is contributing to swift-networking-types as a future standard library component.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Oct 20, 2026 at 12:04 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10