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by saagarjha 1165 days ago
The goal was to write a network driver in several languages. Nobody said anything about comparing memory management techniques, nor would the Swift implementation use a stack allocator anyways.
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They would appreciate your contribution to fix the benchmark.

Apparently the ARC performance improvements announced at WWDC 2022 weren't needed.

I don’t think they would, considering they’ve already finished their study.
You could have your own repo to counterpost every time someone like me refers to that old study with tainted results.
I don't really have the skills to do an accurate comparison across many languages, and if I pick just three or four it's going to get nitpicked to death for being cherry-picked. Honestly, I generally think studies of this kind are mostly doomed to failure, or invariably converge to someone trying to encode x86 intrinsics in Rust.