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KirinDave on April 17, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Non-Apple's Mistake

I was thinking more along the lines of the garbage collector. That's sort of the "tent pole" feature of the last cycle of objc revisions.

irons on April 17, 2010 [–]

With the first iPad model still at 256 MB RAM, and no sign of GC in the iPhone OS 4 preview, memory management will be with the platform for a long time. I think we'll see multi-core first.

KirinDave on April 23, 2010 | [–]

There are collectors that work very well in space constrained, processor constrained environments. It's not impossible.

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