Re: upper limit on retain count

FROM : j o a r
DATE : Tue Apr 19 18:19:54 2005

On 2005-04-18, at 22.43, Ivan S. Kourtev wrote:

> I wasn't able to find any documented upper limits on retain count on
> 32-bit machines (or in general).  I am interested in knowing this
> because I foresee a situation where I may have objects with retain
> counts of hundreds of millions of billions and more.


"hundreds of millions of billions"? How much is that?

If "hundreds of millions of billions" is 1e17 and if a retain operation
take 1 ns to complete, it would take over three (3) years to send all
those retain messages...

(if I didn't make any mistakes with the calculator - it's been known to
happen...)

I humbly propose that:
a) Your design is wrong, or
b) Cocoa+ObjC is not the right set of tools to solve your problem, or
c) some sort of combination of the above.

j o a r