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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by steveklabnik on Thursday May 09, 2019 @01:20PM (#19870163)
Swift.
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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by pjmlp on Friday May 10, 2019 @07:36AM (#19876807)
Swift requires reference counting for compatibility with Objective-C code.

Apple could have gone the .NET way (RCW) to interface with COM reference counting, but that naturally would complicate the bindings to Objective-C runtime and existing libraries.

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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by mcguire on Thursday May 09, 2019 @02:36PM (#19870897)
Which inherits its memory management from Objective C.
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