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Re:Introducing Swift by taharvey on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @09:47PM (#7849720)
reference counting != garbage collection. Garbage collection take CPU and lots of memory. Reference counting just ++ the pointer count on allocation, and -- on free. Essentially no overhead.
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