On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Oftenwrong Soong <oftenwrongso...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Mon, January 4, 2010 12:39:22 PM Bill Bumgarner <b...@mac.com> wrote: >> It isn't so much thinking of it as a reference that needs to be nil'd out as >> much as it >> is a need to properly disconnect a subgraph of objects from the live object >> graph in >> an application such that the subgraph is collected. That is, "nil'ing out >> references" is >> a fix for a symptom where the overarching problem is one of properly >> managing the >> connectivity of the object graph within the application. > > > Does anybody know how the collector actually works?
Yes. Bill Bumgarner does :) You can trust anything he says about the garbage collector. -- Clark S. Cox III clarkc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
