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Re:The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolu... by jolux on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:02PM (#23534879)
We're discussing ARC here, i.e. Automatic Reference Counting, which is a garbage collection algorithm. Retain/release would be manual memory management by reference counting, which is not being discussed.
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Re:The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolu... by cmrdporcupine on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:31PM (#23535406)
Even without ARC it's still garbage collection. The reference counts are kept for the purpose of managing garbage collection. That the programmer has to do some manual retain/release steps is beside the point, even if it does make the experience somewhat painful.
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