Re: Garbage collection - was Beginner with Cocoa

FROM : Paul Bruneau
DATE : Tue Mar 25 23:11:27 2008

On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Jack Repenning wrote:

> On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:

>> There's a *very* simple set of rules to follow regarding retain/
>> release.

>
>
> Yes, but where are they documented?  Or, if they're so simple, can 
> you quote them here?
>
> Not to sound querulous, but what I know of these very simple rules I 
> picked up from multiple conversations like this on, where the 
> experts seem to say "it's so simple" three to five times for every 
> one time they let leak one of these simple rules.  And I've never 
> managed to locate these simple rules in any dox.  There's a good, 
> multipage memory-management doc, but that's a bit more than "a 
> *very* simple set of rules."


My favorite summary is here:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Tasks/MemoryManagementRules.html

I re-found it by googling "cocoa memory management rules"

I learned them when I started programming Cocoa about 6 months ago and 
I am so comfortable with them now that I don't even feel the urge to 
learn the new GC stuff.