Re: Question about object initialization and autorelease

[David Chisnall]

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

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