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Swift For Any Measure: Simplified

I have always liked the idea of using explicit `Measurement` values (magnitude and unit) but I have found them cumbersome in actual code. Until now.

Facebook Engineering recently published an article on Project Lightspeed, their Messenger rewrite, and it suggests they found good reasons to lean in on SQLite. Clompared with the previous iOS version, the rewrite reduced code by 84%, from 1.7 millions lines to 360,000, resulting in a 75% reduction in application size and a 50% reduction in launch time.