Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
- Subject: Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
- From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:57:31 -0700
On Oct 16, 2012, at 7:19 , Fritz Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
> No doubt you are right. However, from the subject line of this thread, I had interpreted the OP's question to be about why _Apple_ had abandoned garbage collection _in favor of ARC_. The GC schemes that Apple might have implemented had it abandoned Objective-C would seem to be off-topic in this thread.
Well, I'm interested to hear it. If Apple abandoned GC simply because they couldn't do it well enough, but it can in fact be done, it's good to know. I still think GC is easier from a programmer's perspective than ARC, so I want to know that there are compelling reasons to have ARC instead.
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Rick
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