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Why Linux is Best for Most People (medium.com)

submitted 7 months ago by TechCodecPawx@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

a lot of that comes down to low level features like GCD and ARC.

Ah, almost but this shows you're just bullshitting (knowingly or not). Those are programming features and neither serves resource efficiency but security and preventing other errors. Important things, but managing memory manually in C will be faster and less resource-intensive than any smart-pointer variant. Doing so flawlessly is hard though.

[–] kayazere@feddit.nl 3 points 7 months ago

Actually GCD is a library (libdispatch) rather than just a language feature and can be used on other platforms: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch