On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 at 17:25:31 UTC, 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.
C++ has gone te ARC route as well with shared_ptr. I find the
scoped_ptr/shared_ptr combination quite convenient and quite safe
overall.
