Sorry, must've been confused by the Apple documentation, it seems that
you are correct and the Objective-C GC is not precise, thus being a
strong reason for removal from the SDK. I figure the advantages of a
precise generational copying collector as used in chicken would be
much less of an issue on the IPhone.

Indy

On 4/14/09, felix winkelmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Nicholas "Indy" Ray <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>  >
>  > Alas, I feel we are getting farther from really discovering why Apple
>  > has chosen to eliminate GC from the IPhone SDK, considering they use a
>  > precise generational collector, the only real problem that remains is
>  > the lack of copying.
>
>
> Which GC do you mean? Autozone is not precise.
>
>
>  cheers,
>
> felix
>


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