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		richardwhiuk on Feb 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chris Lattner left Swift core team I'm fairly convinced that GC is the reason that Android phones need much more RAM and much more CPU to generally be worse than Apple phones in terms of performance.

miskin on Feb 21, 2022 [–]

You may be both right, as android is actually not using Java garbage collectors that are quite good, but they have their own runtime.

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