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Moreover, the specific predictions turned out to be wrong: Swift has no garbage collection (ARC is not GC), and is not a completely clean slate but is using the
by cefstat 12y ago
Moreover, the specific predictions turned out to be wrong: Swift has no garbage collection (ARC is not GC), and is not a completely clean slate but is using the ObjC runtime.
- pjmlp 12y agoMost CS books about GC algorithms reserve chapter 1 for RC.
- wootest 12y agoNo points for "based on LLVM" and "opt-in as you please side by side with Objective-C"? (Side by side with Objective-C probably does not require the Obj-C runtime, but it's hard to see how it wouldn't want to use it.) I did not predict ARC. I'm not a genius, oracle, memory management expert or compiler writer.