On 2013-07-10 19:25, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Jul 9, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Paulo Pinto <pj...@progtools.org> wrote:
A bit off-topic, but well worth reading,
http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/
Oh, regarding ObjC (and I'll qualify this by saying that I'm not an ObjC
programmer). My understanding is that ObjC was originally reference counted (ARC =
Automatic Reference Counting). Apple then introduced a mark & sweep GC for
ObjC and then in the following release deprecated it and switched back to ARC for
reasons I don't recall. However, reference counting *is* garbage collection,
despite what that slide suggests. It just behaves in a manner that tends to spread
the load out more evenly across the application lifetime.
Objective-C originally used manual reference counting. Then Apple
created a GC (never available on iOS). Then they implemented ARC in
Clang. And now they have deprecated the GC and one should use ARC.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
