Just wondering... how's CoreFoundation affected by this?  CFAllocators
(NSZone's equivalent) is everywhere.  Does it also get disregarded?  I've
been overlooking CFAllocator for a while now, so I would prefer if it wasn't
used at all, too.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:51 PM, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 21 Jul 2011, at 14:27, David Chisnall wrote:
>
> > On 21 Jul 2011, at 14:16, Ivan Vučica wrote:
> >
> >> I didn't even bother looking up what zones are for until now.
> >
> > They're not used very much anymore, because half of Cocoa is not
> zone-aware.  On OS X, zones are opaque, so they're not even very useful,
> they just act as hints for the allocation policy.
>
> Oh, and apparently I missed that in Objective-C 2 they were removed.
>  +allocWithZone: on OS X now apparently ignores the zone pointer and -zone
> always returns the default malloc() zone.
>
> David
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