[OT] Why mobile web apps are slow

[Sean Kelly]

On Jul 9, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:

> A bit off-topic, but well worth reading,
> 
> http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/

Oh, regarding ObjC (and I'll qualify this by saying that I'm not an ObjC programmer).  My understanding is that ObjC was originally reference counted (ARC = Automatic Reference Counting).  Apple then introduced a mark & sweep GC for ObjC and then in the following release deprecated it and switched back to ARC for reasons I don't recall.  However, reference counting *is* garbage collection, despite what that slide suggests.  It just behaves in a manner that tends to spread the load out more evenly across the application lifetime.