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Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself by pjmlp on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:01PM (#31055081)
Reference counting is a GC algorithm.

I wouldn't buy into much Apple marketing regarding its performance though,

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages

It makes sense in the context of tracing GC having been a failure in Objective-C due to its C semantics, while automating Cocoa's retain/release calls was much safer approach. Swift naturally built on top of that due to interoperability with Objective-C frameworks.

Nim has taken other optimizations into consideration, however only in the new ORC implementation.

Still, all of them are much better than managing memory manually.

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Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself by elcritch on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:48PM (#31055500)
> I wouldn't buy into much Apple marketing regarding its performance though,

I wouldn’t make claims on Swifts overall performance, but just it’s memory usage (really Obj-Cs) and particularly for GUI development. Java’s GCs have always been very memory hungry, usually to the tune of 2x. Same with .Net. Though to be fair Go’s and Erlang’s GCs have much better memory footprints. Erlang’s actor model benefits it there.

Agreed, they’re all better than manual memory management.

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