Tag Archives: memory management

Objective-C memory management

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Steven Fisher

With Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) coming out soon, you could argue this post is coming almost too late. But there’s a lot of confusion over this, and I don’t think ARC will help much if you don’t understand the why … Continue reading →

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Cocoa With Love (Matt Gallagher): Assign, retain, copy pitfalls in Objective-C.

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Cocoa With Love (Matt Gallagher): Memory and thread-safe custom property methods

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Matt Gallagher: Rules to avoid retain cycles

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Keeping optimal autorelease pools

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Martin Pilkington on autorelease pools: However, a problem arises when you’re creating a lot of objects at once. The obvious solution is to initialise and release objects by hand in this case, but sometimes it isn’t possible. A lot of … Continue reading →

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