Re: ARC vs Manual Reference Counting
Re: ARC vs Manual Reference Counting
- Subject: Re: ARC vs Manual Reference Counting
- From: Patrick Cusack <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:43:48 -0700
Apologies. I have no desire to start an internecine war. I have been reading up on ARC for the past few hours. I also watched the WWDC video on ARC, and after having watched and read everything, I kept feeling as if I was rather comfortable with the old manual memory model.
I guess my real question is "Why did Apple decide to introduce ARC at all?". I am not convinced that the conventions are any easier than the previous model of manual retain counts.
Patrick
On Sep 8, 2013, at 10:11 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:41 PM, <email@hidden> wrote:
> Would anyone agree [with] me that ARC introduces more rules and considerations than previously existed with manual reference counting?
>
> It's not clear which of the two messages, from the entire daily digest you quoted, you are replying to.
>
> If you are asking for help of some kind, you might tell us what you need help with, and how the documentation from Apple and clang.llvm.org have let you down.
>
> If you have an observation to make, you should make it, rather than task others to make theirs with no clue as to what you are driving at. What "rules and considerations" are you talking about? It would help us, to know if you've already pondered the thousands of words already published about the rationale for introducing ARC, and the corner cases that remain; and, having pondered them, what fresh rules and considerations you have discovered, or how they might be more-clearly explained.
>
> Because you're not just inviting us to another religious war about issues that were resolved (well or badly) years ago, are you? Your phrasing is awfully close to "Let's you and him fight."
>
> — F
>
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