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Re: GC pros and cons


  • Subject: Re: GC pros and cons
  • From: Hamish Allan <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:42:57 +0100

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Andy Lee<email@hidden> wrote:

> I can appreciate having an elevated sense of responsibility, but if you take this to the extreme you'd insist on programming in assembly because you don't trust compilers to properly put things on the stack on entering a function and remove them on exiting.

Compilers conforming to C99 I would trust.
gcc -fobjc-gc... not so much.

(See http://lists.apple.com/archives/objc-language/2009/Mar/msg00089.html)

> The current implementation of GC in Objective-C may not reach a high enough level of trust for you, but to rule out GC as inherently irresponsible is kind of silly IMHO.

Agreed!

Hamish
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