Maybe it's an Apple thing. Sometimes they make up silly names like "Grand Central Dispatch" for executing a block in parallel in multiple threads. "ARC" makes m

Maybe it's an Apple thing. Sometimes they make up silly names like "Grand Central Dispatch" for executing a block in parallel in multiple threads. "ARC" makes me still think "adaptive replacement cache", not "automatic reference counting". At least they don't call it "automatic retain count". After all, they used to call "reference count" as "retain count". Confused the heck out of me on my first exposure to Objective-C. Not that others like Microsoft don't do the same thing, renaming commonly known concepts to something they made up. Like DEP vs NX vs XD. Or Interlocked* for atomic operations. Atomic add in Microsoftese is InterlockedAdd.