V4CC - garbage collection question
Charles Yeomans
charles at declareSub.com
Fri Sep 22 22:54:52 CDT 2006
Okay, let's review. REALbasic uses reference counting for memory
management. This is not considered to be "garbage collection" in the
common usage of the term. See <http://www.declareSub.com/> for a
discussion of memory management in REALbasic.
Charles Yeomans
On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Dave Parizek wrote:
> Thanks for the info! Some of it was over my head, but I have
> mostly already spent a lot of time learning Cocoa memory
> management, so I guess I will just keep at it. It will be better
> for my development (as a programmer) in the long run on top of not
> being good for this application (as you pointed out).
>
> What you are saying makes sense. But then it makes me wonder about
> RealBasic and Valentina. RealBasic uses GC, but I do not see
> performance problems (that I recognize) when I use V4RB with RB and
> Einhugur's DataGrid - it seems unbelievably fast. It does many
> things way way faster (based on casual inspection) than Cocoa apps
> like CocoaMySQL or iSale (core data?). This is sort of apples and
> oranges, instead of apples and apples, but just curious...
>
> Is that because things overall are handled differently with RB's
> garbage collection, or with Valentina's object creation/destruction
> in RB, or just that I do not have a clue what real performance
> could be?
>
> What does NOP mean?
>
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