On 6/22/09 7:58 AM, Phil Hystad said: >If you were writing a new Cocoa application from scratch, would >garbage collection be the preferred method over the reference counting >(retain/release) method.
I switched to GC-only during the 10.5 betas, and my answer is: Yes. Others have made good comments, I'll simply add that the tools support on 10.5 is weaker than with retain-release. There are all kinds of limitations (individually minor, but in summation major): - Instruments reports zillions of false positives when checking for leaks - there's no guard malloc for GC memory - OpenGL Profiler doesn't work with GC apps - CHUD.framework is not dual mode, so can't be linked against - MallocDebug.app crashes with GC apps - etc. etc. etc. Otherwise, GC has been a great experience for me. No doubt things will improve in 10.6.... -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
