iPhone vs Android

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/13/16 1:51 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 10:04:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 9/13/16 3:53 AM, Kagamin wrote:
>>> The rule of thumb is that for efficient operation an advanced GC
>>> consumes twice the used memory.
>>
>> Do you have a citation? The number I know is 3x from Emery Berger's
>> (old) work. -- Andrei
>
> I assume it is going to depend of the rate at which the application
> produces garbage.

That's why Berger uses a relatively large battery of benchmark from 
multiple domains. See 
http://www-cs.canisius.edu/~hertzm/gcmalloc-oopsla-2005.pdf. -- Andrei