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Re:Swift Ported to Android by on_and_off on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:32PM (#11177980)
? Android apps are also compiled ahead of time right now (whether they are written in java or kotlin).
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Re:Swift Ported to Android by r00fus on Thursday February 25, 2016 @07:07PM (#11178909)
Don't you still have GC issues for heap allocation/destruction? Swift uses the ARC pattern so no GC lockups or performance issues.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...

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Re:Swift Ported to Android by on_and_off on Friday February 26, 2016 @03:00AM (#11180322)
I have spent a large amount of time optimizing Android apps and GC pauses are generally not the issue (as long as you don't do something stupid like allocating objects in draw calls).

I think that ARC is probably an overall better solution but as far as GC pauses are concerned, we have reached the point where they don't impact performances.

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