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Re: Thread safe reference counting


  • Subject: Re: Thread safe reference counting
  • From: atebits <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:39:12 -0700

Awesome, thanks.

I remember reading that page, just completely missed the "Object allocation and retain count functions" note in the list.

Loren

On Jun 29, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Michael Ash wrote:

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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