Re: Garbage collection in XCode 2.1, and Cocoa
Re: Garbage collection in XCode 2.1, and Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Garbage collection in XCode 2.1, and Cocoa
- From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:19:59 +0200
Am 28.07.2005 um 19:03 schrieb Raffael Cavallaro:
On Jul 28, 2005, at Thu, Jul 28, 11:41 25 AM, Markus Hitter wrote:
What do you do with people who consider garbage collection as a
source of unexpected behaviour and a waste of cycles? Reference
counting is a snap if you know what you are doing.
Presumably the old style refcounting framework will still be available
Resulting in two copies of all available frameworks. 50 % more disk
space for OS installation, 50 % more RAM usage for holding two copies
of system frameworks in memory. Great.
the whole history of computing is one of automating low level
details and freeing programmers to concentrate on higher level
aspects of their code.
As long as it is done at compile time, I agree. As soon as it is
costly at runtime, there are various examples in history which lost.
Cocoa/Java is one of them.
My projects rarely contain any explicitely sending of -release or -
autorelease. There's virtually nothing I could save with GC. Cocoa
does it implicitely right in 99 of 100 cases already. Same for other
Cocoa/Obj-C code I've seen.
Markus
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Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
http://www.jump-ing.de/
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