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kaba0 on May 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for wha...

I don’t get your point. Of course refcounting is a possible and working solution, but it’s not an accident that Java, JS, and C#, languages with the best GCs, doesn’t use it.

astrange on May 21, 2021 [–]

Yes, C# is the best language to write a phone OS in if you want to go out of business.

pjmlp on May 22, 2021 | [–]

Other languages need special hardware to beat C#, so I guess the language wasn't the issue.

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages

https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/11/m1-memory-and-performanc...

astrange on May 22, 2021 | | [–]

There is no "special refcounting hardware" in the M1, it has exactly what I said it has above this. Alas, nobody trusts me…

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