A Comparative Study of the Performance of High-level Languages Specific to Java and Swift as Console Applications vs. an Effective User Interface Overhead

Abstract

The proposed study addresses the performance differences in high-level programming languages which take up the frontlines of the Software Development Domain. The study includes an extensive review of the syntactical differences, language specific features, Virtual Machines that enable the complex capabilities of the languages behind the scenes are compared. Java uses the Java Virtual Machine or the JVM whereas Swift makes use of the LLVM or the Low-level Virtual Machine, the performances that the respective VMs facilitate are discussed in detail. Memory management distinction with reference to Garbage Collection in Java and Automatic Reference Counting referred to as ARC are also viewed in depth. The memory management section highlights the technological growth in the development sphere, from manual memory management debugging which is a tedious process to the provision of memory graphs to keep track of any possible memory leaks in an application. This is carried out through the implementation of a pharmacy application in Java, Swift as well as in Swift with User Interface. The study serves as an emphasis on the core technological aspects of development as opposed to language specificness as it is simply a form of expression of the same fundamental conceptions.