Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
- Subject: Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
- From: Jean-Denis MUYS <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:40:58 +0000
- Thread-topic: Why ARC over garbage collection?
wrote:
In Lisp, you don't have pointers, and the only way to allocate memory is to "cons" (at least from the programmer perspective).
That’s
exactly what I mean by ‘managed’, and I think that’s the regular definition.
I had in mind the presence of a virtual machine. Wikipedia is closer to that than to your definition:
This has nothing to do with whether or not it compiles to native code.
To the extent that managed code was opposed to native applications, the overload of the "native" term is a bit confusing then.
The point remains of course: to allow for seamless and efficient GC, limitations have to be imposed to what the programmer can do. In the context of Cocoa and OS X, the issue is that one feature of Objective-C (C pointers) makes that difficult.
Regards,
Jean-Denis
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