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		kzaher on May 9, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swift Programming Language Evolution I don't think these benchmarks are realistic. Yes, you can use UnsafePointers, but that's not the real world case. ARC, runtime generics and structs have a huge cost in real world programs. Swift is unfortunatelly usually an order of magnitude slower then Java and C# in real world according to last benchmarks I've made. I'm hoping that will change because I really love Swift.

igouy on May 9, 2016 | [–]

Please contribute Swift programs that you think are "the real world case":

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html

jb1991 on May 9, 2016 | [–]

Agreed. Swift is quite high-level compared to C or C++, for examples. As with any languages, there are tradeoffs with performance.

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