Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/22/15 3:39 AM, John Colvin wrote:
> 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.
>
> There has been a flood of GC improvements in druntime from Martin Nowak
> and Rainer Schuetze over the last few months. Probably nothing that
> would satisfy your requirements, but it looks like some sizeable
> speedups nonetheless.

Martin, Rainer - it would be great if you could make public some 
measurements. -- Andrei