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Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
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Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?


  • Subject: Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
  • From: Roland King <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:57:35 +0800

Performance, predictability (*), that GC would never really port well to iOS needing a running thread to clean up and causing ... random ... stutters, plus total ease of use.

(*) debug and release builds with ARC can do slightly different things so you need to test both, but they are way more predictable than GC ever was.

On 16 Oct, 2012, at 6:38 AM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:

> So, why is it that Apple considers ARC a better solution that garbage collection? Is it a performance thing?
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