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by pjmlp 1758 days ago
> Alternatively, Objective C settled upon reference counting (ARC) and this is superior to GC where it counts.

ARC does nothing special other than automate [myCocoaClass retain] and [myCocoaClass release], a compromise after putting a conservative trancing GC in Objective did not work as expected, given the amount of caveats with GC unaware C code.

As such, Objective-C performance related to heap management remains unchanged.