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		nickpsecurity on July 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lily: An interpreted language with a focus on expr... Oh yeah, my mistake. I should've said predictable, not efficient. I remember people liked it to avoid long pauses coming out of nowhere.

blattimwind on July 19, 2018 [–]

With (naive) ARC you can still get long pauses "seemingly out of nowhere", e.g. when a large object tree goes out of scope.

Narishma on July 20, 2018 | [–]

That's not out of nowhere, since you have exact control over when it goes out of scope.

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