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 > _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
