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Re:Understanding the Objective-C Runtime (2010) by saagarjha on Sunday May 26, 2019 @09:13PM (#20018721)
Objective-C 2.0 came with 64-bit, IIRC, so 10.6 should be using it.
Re:Understanding the Objective-C Runtime (2010) by armadsen on Sunday May 26, 2019 @09:19PM (#20018747)
Objective-C 2.0 was part of 10.5 in 2007. It’s not directly tied to 64-bit support. You’re thinking of features that require the “modern runtime” which is only available on 64-bit Mac. Those features came after ObjC 2.0.
Re:Understanding the Objective-C Runtime (2010) by saagarjha on Sunday May 26, 2019 @10:40PM (#20019038)
You're right, I mixed those two up. That's a bit too far back for me :)
Re:Understanding the Objective-C Runtime (2010) by gok on Sunday May 26, 2019 @09:40PM (#20018830)
"Objective-C 2.0" was a marketing term for a bunch of features added in 10.5, some big (e.g. nonfragile ivars, garbage collection) others not so big (e.g. for..in loops, synthesized ivars). The language+runtime has evolved tremendously since then without a new marketing name. Generics and ARC were added, garbage collection and vtable dispatch have been removed.