Re: Thread safe reference counting
Re: Thread safe reference counting
- Subject: Re: Thread safe reference counting
- From: "Michael Ash" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:30:41 -0400
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Chris Suter <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 30/06/2008, at 9:06 AM, atebits wrote:
>
>> Perhaps I'm blind, but after pouring over every scrap of information I
>> could find, I could not find the answer to this question.
>>
>> Are -retain and -release thread-safe? (Perhaps as atomic
>> increments/decrements internally?)
>
> Yes, -retain and -release are thread-safe. It's in the documentation
> somewhere.
Here:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Multithreading/ThreadSafetySummary/chapter_950_section_2.html
Mike
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