Are there other general purpose programming languages besides Objective-C +ARC and Swift which target the llvm and use static compile time Automatic Reference Counting for memory management?
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this doesn't look like a better fit here than it was at Stack Overflow, sorry. See help centergnat– gnat2020-02-26 12:57:37 +00:00Commented Feb 26, 2020 at 12:57
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@gnat Modified my question to be more precise and removed the swift tag it's not a question about swift!v217– v2172020-02-26 13:55:02 +00:00Commented Feb 26, 2020 at 13:55
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM has a list of supported languages that is relatively short. You can go through each one and look at their memory management features.Robert Harvey– Robert Harvey2020-02-26 14:37:50 +00:00Commented Feb 26, 2020 at 14:37
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Could you explain what you mean by compile time ARC please? Do you mean ARC elision optimisation at compile time or something else?Alex– Alex2020-02-26 14:55:19 +00:00Commented Feb 26, 2020 at 14:55
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@Alex Swift works without a garbage collector which decides at runtime which memory is freed like eg. go. In Swift like in Rust it is decided at compile-time, when and which memory is freed , only that the design choices are quite different.v217– v2172020-02-26 15:28:24 +00:00Commented Feb 26, 2020 at 15:28
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This is most likely handled by treating Swift references similar to C++ smart pointers, except for slightly different implementation. So there will be very little in LLVM itself.
Objective-C + ARC is very similar.
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Sorry I forget to add Objective-C. Otherwise I would accept this answer! I will correct my question. Objective-C is also mentioned in the cited wikipedia article.v217– v2172020-02-26 15:31:19 +00:00Commented Feb 26, 2020 at 15:31