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gakada on Sept 27, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift 3.0 Unsafe World

Basically in the unrealistic situation of a closed system, GC can be faster. But it makes FFI significantly harder (e.g. V8 API)

pjmlp on Sept 27, 2016 [–]

Not necessarily, in many GC enabled systems programming languages you can also allocate outside GC heap.

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