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Re:Complaining iOS Developers are missing the point: Apple p... by stcredzero on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @07:28PM (#2464649)
If you're going to say that a missing garbage collector is a feature, you could be one of those guys who use C for string operations.

I don't do the latter. However, I do note that a lot of Mobile Web apps and a lot of Android phones have pauses and stutters when scrolling. From everything I've seen, not having GC on the iPhone is exactly the right contextual decision for its time and place, and this is from a long-time Smalltalker and GC advocate!

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Re:Complaining iOS Developers are missing the point: Apple p... by recoiledsnake on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @08:07PM (#2464738)
WP7 has garbage collection and it's really smooth.The real reason for Android stuttering is lack of GPU acceleration, not GC.
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Re:Complaining iOS Developers are missing the point: Apple p... by contextfree on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:54PM (#2465074)
The built-in and really smooth apps are native code. The third-party apps are restricted to a managed runtime and are decidedly not really smooth. Though the Mango update will come with a better (generational) garbage collector which should improve things.
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