[pebal]

But that's why Swift generates slower code. Memory is cheap, also for Apple, although Apple would like to hide that fact.

[sedatk]

Have you seen the benchmarks? Swift code is 40% faster than Java in that instance.

[vips7L]

I don’t think anyone actually believes that the language change is what made the difference in that post. As far as anyone can tell there were 2 things that made their rewrite better:

1. They had experience on the type of app and you tend to do things better when you do it the second time.

2. Reading between the lines they were likely running an ancient version of Java from 10+ years ago.

[pjmlp]

I have indeed,

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages