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What is Swift's memory fragmentation problem and how is it mitigated?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Memory fragmentation occurs when free memory is split into small unusable blocks.
Deep explanation
Fragmentation reduces allocation efficiency and increases memory pressure. Swift mitigates this using heap allocators, ARC optimization, and pooling strategies for frequently allocated objects.
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