Re:Apple is rewriting Foundation in Swift
by fulafel on Friday May 26, 2023 @04:03PM
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It's good to reduce the cache hot best case time of course but isnt the more fundamental sin of RC in the extra read/write memory traffic, cache footprint and cross core cache line ping pong when incrementing object refcount fields.
(or if going with BRC, correspondingly there shouldn't be a advantages for this custom CPU feature)
(or if going with BRC, correspondingly there shouldn't be a advantages for this custom CPU feature)