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Re:Garbage Collection by jmull on Sunday December 01, 2019 @08:40AM (#21675425)
By that measure, every project is a good measure of GC performance. Is that really a good argument?

I believe all general purpose languages let the code allocate memory and therefore will let you allocate memory in a way inefficient to your task.

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Re:Garbage Collection by pjmlp on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:04AM (#21675524)
The argument is that to eventually write Swift code whose performance matches the competition, one needs to work around ARC's implementation.

Hence why there is so much emphasis on value driven programming alongside protocols at WWDC talks.

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