Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
- Subject: Re: Why ARC over garbage collection?
- From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:25:02 +0200
Le 17 oct. 2012 à 00:57, Rick Mann <email@hidden> a écrit :
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> On Oct 16, 2012, at 7:19 , Fritz Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
The point is that it can't be done without changing the language, dropping compatibility with all C/C++ libraries, and rewriting most existing software.
-- Jean-Daniel
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