So, if I declared a property called money and synthesized said
property, would [object setMoney:money] and object.money = money
compile to the same code? That, of course, implies that we're also
inserting property-related code to simple method calls if they happen
to correspond with a property.
Also, same question for if I declared a property and didn't synthesize
(wrote my own getter/setter).
Luke
On Mar 29, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
On Mar 29, 2009, at 10:06 PM, Luke the Hiesterman wrote:
I can't think of anything about properties that needs to be dealt
with at runtime. My understanding has it that all information
necessary for what properties do is available at compile time. E.g.
the method to call, return types, how to compile synthesized
properties using copy, retain, assign, nonatomic, and also whether
to throw an error if something is readonly. So, then, my question
is, what about using properties requires a runtime component? To me
it feels like everything could be handled by the compiler.
The compiler emits code that calls runtime API to implement the
mechanisms behind the setter/getter very efficiently and with
minimal code duplication. This includes support for code that can
run both GC and non-GC, as well as atomic vs. nonatomic.
b.bum
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