Re: upper limit on retain count
Re: upper limit on retain count
- Subject: Re: upper limit on retain count
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:19:54 +0200
On 2005-04-18, at 22.43, Ivan S. Kourtev wrote:
I wasn't able to find any documented upper limits on retain count on
32-bit machines (or in general). I am interested in knowing this
because I foresee a situation where I may have objects with retain
counts of hundreds of millions of billions and more.
"hundreds of millions of billions"? How much is that?
If "hundreds of millions of billions" is 1e17 and if a retain operation
take 1 ns to complete, it would take over three (3) years to send all
those retain messages...
(if I didn't make any mistakes with the calculator - it's been known to
happen...)
I humbly propose that:
a) Your design is wrong, or
b) Cocoa+ObjC is not the right set of tools to solve your problem, or
c) some sort of combination of the above.
j o a r
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