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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by ianai on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @10:20PM (#25205688)
Read up on the performance overhead of GC across other languages. They’re messy and can lock up periodically. They take up significant ram and resources.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by wmf on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @10:34PM (#25205780)
We're talking about non-GC apps on x86 vs. the same non-GC apps on Arm.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by ianai on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:55AM (#25207921)
Even those still do memory management-and usually poorly.
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