To my understanding (and some rumour before WWDC) they will integrate a real garbage collector:
Here my interpretation so far: It will work behind the scenes by linking a different CoreFoundation library version that effectively disables -retain -release -autorelease by making them a NO-OP. And, there will be some hint to be coded into +initialize for non-object pointers in instance variables (e.g. a char * but this is much less common than an id). With that, the garbage collector knows about all referenced objects and you don't have to care about memory leaks and double-release any more. By this, porting is very easy - you don't have to go through your code and remove all the retain/release code. For new implementations, you can simply forget about them. -- hns _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
