On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Alex Queiroz wrote:
Hallo,
On 4/13/09, Elf <[email protected]> wrote:
I am not agreeing with Apple at all, but they might be afraid of GC
pauses.
how would they know its a gc pause? it would just look like a bunch of
memory
accesses to them.
They might be afraid of how GC pauses may give the user the
impression of "slowness".
let's be honest with ourselves. when gc happens, its not like a little flag
comes up going 'GC in progress! please wait!'... its very rare that it 'feels'
any different from a normal procedure call. slightly longer, perhaps, but
almost indistinguishable in the general case. the reason for their (apparent?
potential?) disapproval of gc isnt because of the user experience.
-elf
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