Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
- Subject: Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
- From: Scott Ribe <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:57:53 -0600
On Oct 16, 2012, at 5:34 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
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> On Oct 16, 2012, at 16:25 , Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> The point is that it can't be done without changing the language, dropping compatibility with all C/C++ libraries, and rewriting most existing software.
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> I'm not sure that's been proven in this discussion.
Well, perhaps not "proven" exactly. But what *has* been proven is that in C/C++ (and Objective-C by the same mechanism) is that one must use a conservative garbage collector--so the best-performing garbage collectors are simply not usable here.
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Scott Ribe
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