Apple M1に関して以下のようなツイートが話題になった。 18/ Another "magic" trick is how their "Swift" programming language uses "reference counting" instead of the "garbage collection" in Android. They did something in their CPU to double the speed of reference counting.— Robᵉʳᵗ Graham😷, provocateur (@ErrataRob) 2020年11月26日 fun fact: retaining and releasing an NSObject takes ~30 nanoseconds on current gen Intel, and ~6.
