On 31 Mar 2012, at 16:35, Ivan Vučica wrote: > I was burned once when using a garbage collector. ARC reminds me too much of > a garbage collector.
ARC is very different from a garbage collector. For one thing, it is deterministic. Retains and releases still happen in the same order and at the same times, you just don't have to think about them. It isn't doing anything magic, it's just doing (a more efficient implementation of) the same thing that you do with manual retain and release messages. Oh, and you get zeroing weak references too. I'd really suggest that you reconsider. Since starting using ARC in Étoilé code I've been working on has become both simpler and faster. Perhaps more importantly, in ARC mode we finally have a memory model that actually makes sense for Objective-C. David -- This email complies with ISO 3103 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
