Re: Garbage collection - was Beginner with Cocoa

FROM : mmalc crawford
DATE : Wed Mar 26 06:24:42 2008

On Mar 25, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Jack Repenning wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Rob Napier wrote:

>>>
>>> I was thinking
>>> <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Concepts/ObjectOwnership.html

>>> >
>> If people will read nothing but "Practical Memory Management" (the 
>> page
>> after the one you linked here, and all of 1500 words long), they 
>> will be
>> fine for nearly everything. By the time they need more than that 
>> one page,
>> they will probably know what they don't know and be able to figure 
>> it out.

>
> Both of those are good, thanks, and I agree that "Practical" is even 
> better than the "Ownership" page alone.
>

Thanks to Erik, then, for filing that bug...

The rules can even be described pictorially:

   <http://homepage.mac.com/mmalc/memoryBalance.png>

mmalc