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by elcritch 2077 days ago
In that regard it's not too dissimilar to Rust's semantics when memory is free'ed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23362518).

Nim's ARC does inject refs/decrs, but they're not atomic which means it's overhead can be pretty minimal. I don't know if ObjC/Swifts ARC uses atomics or locking. GTK's object system for example uses locking which makes it pretty expensive.