No, ARC is emphatically *not* garbage collection. It's not new either,
Objectionable-C does it, as does auto_ptr in C++
There's a pretty accurate summary of the language on quora:
http://www.quora.com/How-does-Swift-Apple-Programming-Language-compare-with-other-modern-programming-languages
Ok thanks for this link, interesting stuff there indeed :)
I guess I'll google a bit to see if I can understand the difference
between ARC and a GC.
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BoD
On 04/06/2014 10:23, Kevin Wright wrote:
No, ARC is emphatically *not* garbage collection. It's not new
either, Objectionable-C does
I wonder about Swift in terms of performance of apps. Traditionally Games
companies use C++ for their games engines and on iOS just use the minimum
Objective-C to act as the glue to the operating system. For all Objective-C
apps then yes Swift will be a big improvement but for those where it was
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com
wrote:
Though I'm upset that the most popular answer fails to mention the
complete lack of features for tackling concurrency!
I'm unconvinced there is any point to syntactic support for concurrency.
Support concurrency in
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Carl Jokl carl.j...@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder about Swift in terms of performance of apps. Traditionally Games
companies use C++ for their games engines and on iOS just use the minimum
Objective-C to act as the glue to the operating system. For all Objective-C
