Would you pay for GC?

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Wed Jan 26 03:27:39 UTC 2022


On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 02:09:24AM +0000, Tejas via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 January 2022 at 07:13:41 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
[...]
> > If you are paying to replace GC with ARC, without putting the money
> > to reach Swift level of performance (which is still pretty lame
> > versus last gen tracing GCs in Java/.NET), then you will be getting
> > lemons.
> > 
> > https://forums.swift.org/t/a-roadmap-for-improving-swift-performance-predictability-arc-improvements-and-ownership-control/54206
> > 
> > I can already see it, the forums being inundated with complains
> > about ARC performance versus other languages.
> 
> Even then people are dissatisfied, apparently.
> 
> I asked Reddit why ARC isn't used more widely despite Swift being so
> successful and was **swiftly**(pun intended 😉) corrected that Swift
> user share has become 50% of what it once was at it's peak.
[...]

Cognitive dissonance. :-P


T

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