On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Michael Ash <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Lorenzo Thurman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Why can't iPhone apps use GC? Is it resources? Performance? Some
> combination
> > of the two or other reasons altogether?
> > Just curious, thanks.
>
> I know that this will be unsatisfying, but the real reason that iPhone
> apps can't use GC is because Apple has not yet made GC available for
> the iPhone.
>
> Anything further would be pure speculation, because Apple doesn't talk
> about things like that.
>

Actually, the documentation is quite specific on the subject.

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/WhatIsCocoa/WhatIsCocoa.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002974-CH3-SW76

iPhone OS Note: For performance reasons, garbage collection is not allowed
in Cocoa applications running on iPhone OS.
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