Re:Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Referen...
by hmlongco on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:27PM
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"No doubt straight up ARC with refcounting bumps on every function call,etc..."
Yeah, but in Swift you don't do that. From what I'm told, the compiler's static analysis has gotten a lot smarter in determining when a ref-count bump is needed, and the increased use of struct-based value types in the language leads more and more to situations where a refcount bump isn't needed at all since there's no object reference in the first place.
Yeah, but in Swift you don't do that. From what I'm told, the compiler's static analysis has gotten a lot smarter in determining when a ref-count bump is needed, and the increased use of struct-based value types in the language leads more and more to situations where a refcount bump isn't needed at all since there's no object reference in the first place.