That explains a iOS vs Android difference (ARC vs Garbage Collection), but it doesn't explain the article (and Gruber's) apparent argument that Apple Silicon m

That explains a iOS vs Android difference (ARC vs Garbage Collection), but it doesn't explain the article (and Gruber's) apparent argument that Apple Silicon machines running native ObjectiveC/Swift code use less memory than the same apps natively built via ObjectiveC/Swift code on Intel running the same OS (but different machine code obviously).