On 24/06/2012, at 1:55 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > Why didn't Apple do the same thing for ARC?
Because ARC is a compiler technology that inserts -retain, -release automatically and silently into your code as it is compiled. The methods have to be there in order for memory management to work at runtime - ARC doesn't do anything at runtime, by then your code is exactly the same as if you'd written memory management manually (though hopefully without any mistakes!). --Graham _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
