Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 at 21:44:05 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
>> You seeing this completely one sided. Even if write barries 
>> make code
>> slower by 10% its a non issue if the GC collections get faster 
>> by 10% as
>> well. Then in average the program will run at the same speed.
>
> Hmmmm... not sure the math works out that way. -- Andrei

Yeah the math are wrong, but the general idea remains.

I don't think it make sens to completely discard the idea of 
barriers, especially when it come to write barrier on the 
immutable heap. At least that should certainly pay off.