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Swift rewrite of the ixy network driver

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2018-12-30 · latest 2020-10-27

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  1. …and any optimization algorithms, just turn reference counting into poor man's tracing GC. https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.swift/blob/master/perfo...
  2. …project: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages and its discussion on Swift performance: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.swift/blob/master/perfo...
    comment by dmitriid · 2020-09-26 · in Swift System Is Now Open Source
  3. …patterns. If you add Swift to the soup, there is still quite some work to do regarding performance, https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.swift/blob/master/perfo... The other, even bigger OS, is running on tracing GCs. And Windows is…
  4. …tens of millions of objects through it every second. There's some more evlauation for Swift here: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.swift/tree/master/perfo... It's just a coincidence that JavaScript and Swift end up with almost the same…
  5. …a big performance hit, with little information on why exactly so many calls are necessary. https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.swift/blob/master/perfo...
  6. This is an additional comparison I found with other languages. https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.swift/blob/master/perfo...
    comment by jamessteel · 2019-09-12 · in Why is Rust slightly slower than C?
  7. …or bug, not something fundamental in the memory management model. Swift is still quite young. [1] https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.swift/blob/master/perfo...
  8. …in High-Level Languages", because there are still unsafe operations going on (for DMA, etc.): https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.swift/search?q=Unsafe While it's great that you get improved safety (and often nicer and easier to reason…