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Re:J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and r... by tlrobinson on Thursday September 13, 2012 @08:22PM (#4519376)
"runtime and tool support to detect memory leaks".

So... a garbage collector?

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Re:J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and r... by hoka on Thursday September 13, 2012 @08:43PM (#4519466)
Well, if it's just detecting, that's not GC. That's just, "Hey! There's trash here!"
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Re:J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and r... by tlrobinson on Thursday September 13, 2012 @08:59PM (#4519501)
Once you know where the trash is, the easy part is deallocating it.
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Re:J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and r... by invalidname on Friday September 14, 2012 @08:48AM (#4521335)
Its not automatic, you need to explicitly release. They are referring to the tools builtin in xcode which you will have to use manually to debug memory problems in Objective-C then move it back to your Java code as annotations.
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Re:J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and r... by jonmrodriguez on Thursday September 13, 2012 @10:53PM (#4519795)
I think that's referring to "development runtime", not "production runtime". I.e. run a memory leak detector while you are debugging and profiling. But once you fix all/most of the leaks, you don't need to deploy a GC.
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