Developer to Developer: Thanks for the Memory

by Boisy G.Pitre
Oct, 2010 Issue

Article Synopsis

If there is one topic that beginning Objective-C and Cocoa programmers struggle with, it is application-level memory management. For those coming from a pure C and C++ background, the concept of retain counts and all of the other ideas that accompany memory management in the Objective-C environment can require an adjustment in thinking. In this month's Developer to Developer, we'll dive into the water and swim with the memory sharks, delving into retain counts, object references and the like.

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