When IBM came and "created" a standard the standard SUCKED. The 8088 was a terrible CPU with a terrible ISA. Systems like the Atari ST, and Amiga which where cheaper, more powerful, and offered features that MS-DOS wouldn't have for years could never compete.
sort of like the iPad and printing?
- mark-compact generational GC (ObjC one is a conservative mark & sweep, which means that it's both slower and suffers more from heap fragmentation)
Mono currently does not have a compacting garbage collector. One is in the works, and can be included as an unsupported feature when building from source.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire