On Jan 29, 2015, at 19:47 , Greg Parker <gpar...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> `atomic` makes a big difference for a strong or weak property of object type 
> because objects have retain counts.

Er, I feel stupid but I don’t understand. How do the retain counts affect this? 
On the one hand, properties are not the only place where retain counts are 
manipulated, and on the other hand, don’t retain count changes have to be 
atomic anyway?


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