Swift does away with pointers == pervasive ARC

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 17 June 2014 10:08, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 15:16:44 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
>> What say you to that, Walter?
>>
>> Apple have committed to pervasive ARC, which you consistently argue is
>> not feasible...
>> Have I missed something, or is this a demonstration that it is
>> actually practical?
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24101718/swift-performance-sorting-arrays
>
> Does it answer the question ?

-Ofast seems to perform the same as C++. -Ofast allegedly does
basically what '-release -noboundscheck' does. You'd never try and
benchmark D code without those flags.