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RE: GC vs reference counting, I've found that writing code using ARC feels a lot like writing code using GC - 95% of the time, I never notice it. Still, I'd pre
by king_magic 14y ago
RE: GC vs reference counting, I've found that writing code using ARC feels a lot like writing code using GC - 95% of the time, I never notice it. Still, I'd prefer to not have the overhead of GC.
> I would rather rewrite 30% of my code than 100%.
I agree with you on this. I'm not dismissing it - in my original post, I said the focus of the original article should have been the potential for reuse across platforms - but it was glossed over in a disappointing 3 sentences.
- CodeCube 14y agoChris Sells added reference counting to the open source "Rotor" release years ago. This was to test whether GC overhead was indeed an overhead over deterministic finalization. http://www.sellsbrothers.com/writing/refcount_rotor.doc http://www.sellsbrothers.com/writing/refcount_rotor.doc I'll let you come to your own conclusions about the results :)