[OT] Why mobile web apps are slow

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-07-10 20:43, Paulo Pinto wrote:

> What sometimes goes missed between the lines is that one of the
> decisions to go ARC instead of GC, is because the Objective-C GC never
> worked properly and ARC offers a better fit for the current state of
> Objective-C world.
>
> First of all, GC was an opt-in and very few libraries supported it.

Wasn't it possible to use the GC with all libraries but not the other 
way around?

> Then we have the typical issues with a conservative GC in a C based
> language, which lead to tons of issues if one looks into developer forums.

The GC only worked for the Objective-C part.

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/Jacob Carlborg