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No, it's reference counting, which by definition is not manual memory management. Rentzsch used this notation because he, like most Mac developers, uses Objecti
by scrod 16y ago
No, it's reference counting, which by definition is not manual memory management. Rentzsch used this notation because he, like most Mac developers, uses Objective-C, a language that has had any significant pertinence to the iPhone only for the last few months.
- devinj 16y agoYou manually count references. It has plenty of the downsides of manual memory management, even if some silly technical distinction puts it into the camp of the vastly superior (in terms of programmer time) solutions offered by higher level languages (Java, lisps, Python, Ruby, Perl, C#, etc.).