Cocoaphony

Two posts in a day… but this was a completely different topic.

I’m beginning work on my first Leopard-only application, and so I’m trying out garbage collection. Sure, I’m excited about garbage collection. Sure, I have no great love of keeping track of my retain counts and autorelease pools. But….

It feels really, really weird to not release my variables. I tend to rely on autorelease a lot. I know there are some disadvantages, but I like the fact that it notes your intention when you allocate the memory. Read more…