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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by astrange on Sunday April 25, 2021 @10:44PM (#26938726)
No, the performance issues are real. GC programs have more page demand and higher peak memory use, which is specifically what the iOS memory model (jetsam and memory compression) can't deal with well. They can have some wins due to compacting.

There is of course a GC language on iOS (JavaScript) but expensive webpages get killed quickly.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by pjmlp on Monday April 26, 2021 @02:32AM (#26939855)
And yet Microsoft was able to do very good phones with GC languages with very good performance for 200 euros, maybe Apple should talk to their runtime engineers.
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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by astrange on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:52AM (#26952483)
Wasn't most of the system stack in C++ since it was shared with either Windows or Nokia? Either way, they went out of business, so we can't tell if they can support a phone 5 years back with new OS features.
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