I don&#x27;t think these benchmarks are realistic. Yes, you can use UnsafePointers, but that&#x27;s not the real world case. ARC, runtime generics and structs have a huge cost in real world programs.<p>Swift is unfortunatelly usually an order of magnitude slower then Java and C# in real world according to last benchmarks I&#x27;ve made. I&#x27;m hoping that will change because I really love Swift.