[OT] Why mobile web apps are slow

[SomeDude]

On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 at 17:25:31 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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.

C++ has gone te ARC route as well with shared_ptr. I find the 
scoped_ptr/shared_ptr combination quite convenient and quite safe 
overall.