Re: Garbage collection - was Beginner with Cocoa
Re: Garbage collection - was Beginner with Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Garbage collection - was Beginner with Cocoa
- From: colo <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:30:31 -0400
In Ruby GC just works dandy without thought. Why is it so different in
Cocoa Obj2.0?
What kinda of real headaches will I have jumping into osx programing
compared to ruby ?
On 3/24/08, Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden> wrote:
> on 2008-03-24 10:32 AM, Scott Thompson at email@hidden wrote:
>
> > Over time, there will be more code able to take advantage of the
> > Garbage Collector, but I think it will be some time before it's
> > ubiquitous enough to remove the retain/release memory management
> > scheme from the literature.
>
> Let me be one of the first to say that the Emperor has no clothes.
>
> What I mean is, for those of us who are already fully comfortable with
> reference counting, it's easier than learning the nuances and limitations of
> garbage collection. Frankly, reading the garbage collection docs scares me
> to death because of all the nooks and crannies where you apparently have to
> be careful, while I can code retain/release with my eyes shut. I'm sure I'll
> eventually get comfortable with garbage collection, but I do hope that
> reference counting doesn't go away.
>
> I've written a Cocoa framework that is intended to be usable with both
> retain/release and garbage collection (and 32-bit and 64-bit). But I don't
> know whether I did it right, and I have no idea how to go about finding out.
>
> --
>
> Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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