On 17 Nov 2008, at 06:02, Krishna wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some of you might be interested in this. AutoZone is Apple's
garbage collector for Cocoa:
Is it a drop-in GC? I remember reading that it requires compiler
support for emitting write barriers etc.
It does, however clang will be emitting these automatically for the
Apple runtime. Since clang has a very clean runtime abstraction
layer, we can probably steal 90% of the code we need from Apple.
I don't really like the Apple approach, since it doesn't integrate
with the retain / release mechanism and so needs every framework to be
recompiled with GC support (and without for non-GC programs), which is
okay for Apple but a huge pain for packagers on *NIX, but it might be
worth supporting for people who want to port their code from OS X.
David
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