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I think there will be Garbage Collection added to iOS5. Apple a year or two back had a big presentation at one of their WWDC's about a new multi-core garbage c
by Dobbs 15y ago
I think there will be Garbage Collection added to iOS5.
Apple a year or two back had a big presentation at one of their WWDC's about a new multi-core garbage collection for Snow Leopard.
With dual core in the new iPad 2 and I imagine coming on the next iPhone this represents a perfect time to newer apps porting over.
- sjs 15y agoMacRuby on iPhone ... oh I hope you're right.
- wallflower 15y ago> I think there will be Garbage Collection added to iOS5 I wonder if iOS5 will be backward compatible to iPhone 4. Most games manage their own memory allocations/pools - this won't be that useful to games. But to the average hobbyist programmer this means the bar will be lowered and more noise will be introduced into the App Store. But Apple still has the best tools. Android, by contrast, has garbage collection built-in and lots of mediocre apps. Hopefully with their new ADT 11 Interface Builder-like GUI tool, they will get better. Apple doesn't want to you to make poor quality apps. Google could care less (it is so designer-unfriendly, I had to apologize multiple times to our designer for having to deal with skinning an Android app) After hours of effort and frustration, he effectively failed. When it is all in XML files using obscure attributes like layout_width and Horror of All Horrors... selectors (for stuff like custom click colors/states), it is more programming than design. And Google, why is it so hard to define Colors and Themes (XML?!)