Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC
Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Feb 21 23:50:39 PST 2015
On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 00:43:47 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 22 February 2015 at 05:20, JN via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=02202015a
>>
>> Interesting...
>>
>> Apple is dropping GC in favor of automatic reference counting.
>> What are the
>> benefits of ARC over GC? Is it just about predictability of
>> resource
>> freeing? Would ARC make sense in D?
>
> D's GC is terrible, and after 6 years hanging out in this
> place, I
> have seen precisely zero development on the GC front. Nobody
> can even
> imagine, let alone successfully implement a GC that covers
> realtime
> use requirements.
I lack the skills to be hired by Aonix, but the military seem to
think it is ok to put a real time JVM taking care of missile
systems.
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Lockheed_Martin_Selects_Aonix_PERC_Virtual_Machine_For_Aegis_Weapon_System_999.html
They surely have considered the situation "GC was called => where
did the missile go".
It doesn't get more real time than that.
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