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And with GC on the way out in OS X... MacRuby has their work cut out for them.
by kennywinker 15y ago
And with GC on the way out in OS X... MacRuby has their work cut out for them.
- Groxx 15y agoGC is on the way out? I haven't heard that before... have a link?
- ksuther 15y agoEnd of the page here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/ObjectiveC/RN-TransitioningToARC/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40011226 https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/Object... Apple highly encourages using ARC over GC for new development.
- Groxx 15y agoWell yeah. One is compiler-assisted reference counting and the other is garbage collection. Reference counting is nearly always faster than garbage collecting, and Apple has generally been a bit obsessed on speed, for however much that has gained them or lost them. Their wording there is suspect though. Interesting - thanks for the link!
- chalst 15y agoReference counting is generally quite a bit slower overall than stop-the-world garbage collection. I guess you meant latency, where reference counting generally has better latency than incremental garbage collection.