On Friday, 27 February 2015 at 23:06:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 2/27/15 2:46 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2015-02-27 21:33:51 +0000, Steven Schveighoffer said:
I believe autorelease pools are not needed for ARC, but are
maintained
because much Objective-C code contains MRC, and that protocol
needs to
be supported.
Exactly.
OK, so at least in theory autorelease pools are not necessary
for getting ARC to work? -- Andrei
ARC need them, this is part of the spec. You can have good RC
without them IMO.