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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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