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>reference counted system is a _garbage_collector_ Exactly. An awful one.
by gd1 13y ago
>reference counted system is a _garbage_collector_
Exactly. An awful one.
- penguindev 13y agoSo why did Apple switch to ARC?
- masklinn 13y agoObj-C has been a (non-automatic) refcounted language since its inception, save for a very short period of more advanced GC on OSX (the GC never made it to iOS). Also, ARC is not a refcounting GC, the ARC calls are injected statically in the binary as if they'd been inserted manually in the source.