Peter Hosey

Ice cubes, or as I like to call them, cold water pods

Free idea: Whenever you accept an incorrect value for the sake of permissiveness or backward compatibility, also sleep(0.2).

A two-part assertion:

1. Your app, running as native code on 2026 hardware, can handle n≈10,000.
2. If #1 is not true, you have performance work to do. Fire up Instruments* and get to it.

*or your platform's nearest equivalent