Re: Garbage collection in Leopard (not an NDA question)
Re: Garbage collection in Leopard (not an NDA question)
- Subject: Re: Garbage collection in Leopard (not an NDA question)
- From: "Jim Thomason" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:04:55 -0600
Would it be correct to say that we're /expected/ to be using garbage
collection, as opposed to solely using traditional memory management
techniques?
My random speculation guess, with no fancy developer preview or any
sort of nifty inside information is that you'll need to keep using
traditional memory management techniques if you want the app to run on
pre-leopard versions.
So retain/release/autorelease will be no-ops when running in Leopard's
fancy new memory management based runtime, and will still work as
before in pre-Leopard OSes. Assuming this is actually possible and
makes sense, of course.
Alternatively, I guess Apple could update the runtime on older OS
versions to incorporate garbage collection (again, assuming it's
possible), but I wouldn't hold my breath for that.
Standard transitional stuff. I'm sure that for the first few years,
everyone'll care about supporting Tiger or Panther, and then as they
fade to gray, more and more people won't bother.
This is fun. I should start up a flagrant speculation site.
"I hear Apple's gonna invade Sweden."
-Jim......
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