More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 6 May 2014 22:30, Michel Fortin via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 2014-05-06 12:04:55 +0000, Manu via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> said:
>
>> Notably, I didn't say 'phones'. Although I think they do generally
>> fall into this category, I think they're drifting away. Since they run
>> full OS stack's, it's typical to have unknown amounts of free memory
>> for user-space apps and virtual memory managers that can page swap, so
>> having excess memory overhead probably isn't such a big deal. It's
>> still a major performance hazard though. Stuttering realtime
>> applications is never a professional look, and Android suffers
>> chronically in this department compared to iOS.
>
>
> Note that iOS has no page swap. Apps just get killed if there isn't enough
> memory (after being sent a few low memory signals they can react on,
> clearing caches, etc.). Apps that takes a lot of memory cause other apps in
> the background to be killed (and later restarted when they come to the
> foreground).

I'm just saying why those platforms aren't likely to suffer the
no-free-memory environment, and therefore can't really be considered
proper embedded systems like video games consoles.