Re: [Chicken-users] IPhone

[Elf]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Alex Queiroz wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> On 4/13/09, Elf <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >    I am not agreeing with Apple at all, but they might be afraid of GC
> > pauses.
> > >
> >
> >  how would they know its a gc pause?  it would just look like a bunch of
> > memory
> >  accesses to them.
>
>     They might be afraid of how GC pauses may give the user the
> impression of "slowness".

let's be honest with ourselves.  when gc happens, its not like a little flag
comes up going 'GC in progress!  please wait!'... its very rare that it 'feels'
any different from a normal procedure call.  slightly longer, perhaps, but
almost indistinguishable in the general case.  the reason for their (apparent?
potential?) disapproval of gc isnt because of the user experience.

-elf