Am 13.01.2014 um 11:29 schrieb Wolfgang Lux <wolfgang....@gmail.com>:
> Niels Grewe wrote: > >>> Am 12.01.2014 um 00:06 schrieb "Riccardo Mottola" <r...@gnu.org>: >>> >>> ARC instead is more a "taste". It is a new addition in the GC discussion. I >>> personally prefer ref-counting. >> >> This seems to be a common misconception: ARC *is* reference counting; it has >> very little to do with garbage collection. > > Sorry for nitpicking, Niels. Don’t be :-) > ARC is indeed reference counting, but reference counting *is* one way of > performing garbage collection :-) Very true, though reference counting alone has certain deficiencies as a garbage collection mechanism... So let’s say my point is that ARC doesn’t turn Objective-C into a language where you don’t have to care about memory management (which, I assume, is what people commonly understand when they hear the phrase ‘a garbage-collected language’).There’s no tracing, there’s no attempt made at detecting cyclic references, so you still have to think carefully about memory management. Cheers, Niels _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
