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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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