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		slavapestov on Dec 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: V (Vlang) 0.2 > Unlike in Go or Swift, it won't be used on all objects, but only on the small percentage that couldn't be handled by autofree. Swift also has value types, and optimization passes to promote heap-allocated objects and closures to the stack where possible using escape analysis.

azakai on Dec 23, 2020 [–]

Similar in Go as well: Many things are by value, and it does escape analysis too, allowing a lot of things to not require the GC.

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