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? _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com