Re: Garbage collection - was Beginner with Cocoa

FROM : colo
DATE : Mon Mar 24 16:30:31 2008

In Ruby GC just works dandy without thought. Why is it so different in
Cocoa Obj2.0?
What kinda of real headaches will I have jumping into osx programing
compared to ruby ?

On 3/24/08, Bill Cheeseman <<email_removed>> wrote:
> on 2008-03-24 10:32 AM, Scott Thompson at <email_removed> wrote:
>
>  > Over time, there will be more code able to take advantage of the
>  > Garbage Collector, but I think it will be some time before it's
>  > ubiquitous enough to remove the retain/release memory management
>  > scheme from the literature.
>
>  Let me be one of the first to say that the Emperor has no clothes.
>
>  What I mean is, for those of us who are already fully comfortable with
>  reference counting, it's easier than learning the nuances and limitations of
>  garbage collection. Frankly, reading the garbage collection docs scares me
>  to death because of all the nooks and crannies where you apparently have to
>  be careful, while I can code retain/release with my eyes shut. I'm sure I'll
>  eventually get comfortable with garbage collection, but I do hope that
>  reference counting doesn't go away.
>
>  I've written a Cocoa framework that is intended to be usable with both
>  retain/release and garbage collection (and 32-bit and 64-bit). But I don't
>  know whether I did it right, and I have no idea how to go about finding out.
>
>  --
>
>  Bill Cheeseman - <email_removed>
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