It depends on the workload. ARC can be more expensive than tracing GC, especially with heavily shared objects.
But my main point was that the presence of a GC has nothing to do with how close a language is to the metal. Memory management strategy and low-level capabilities are two separate things.
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It depends on the workload. ARC can be more expensive than tracing GC, especially with heavily shared objects.
But my main point was that the presence of a GC has nothing to do with how close a language is to the metal. Memory management strategy and low-level capabilities are two separate things.