On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Rich Morin wrote:
> At 6:09 PM -0200 2/11/11, Caio Chassot wrote:
>> On 2011-02-11, at 15:25 , Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>>>
>>> Magically converting a snake_case method call to a
>>> CamelCase method dispatch is bad for peformance
>>> and documentation.
>
> It's not c
Another important use of weakrefs came to mind: avoiding finalization.
In general, finalizers are a bad idea. They often block GC, or at
least block each other. They add overhead to GC cycles, since either
finalizers must be run or objects must be enqueued for another thread
to run their finalizer
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Laurent Sansonetti
wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> Do you control the data structure that holds a reference to 'B'? If yes, you
> may want to use NSHashTable which supports weak references.
> To me, this sounds like a design problem. Maybe your project can be
> re-architecture
