iPhone vs Android

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/13/2016 4:59 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Here's my worries about the hybrid approach. The GC run time is proportional not
> to the amount of memory you manage with the GC, but to the amount of memory that
> might hold a pointer to a GC managed memory. In other words, if most of my
> memory is RC managed, but some of it is GC, I pay the price of both memory
> manager on most of my memory.

Memory allocated with malloc() is unknown to the GC. This works fine unless a 
reference to the GC memory is inserted into malloc'd data, which is why there's 
an API to the GC to let it know about such things.