Automatic Garbage Collection

[Thorsten Hohage]

Hi Ruslan
and all,

this seems to be a post before my introduction to this list :-)

Regarding to the topic the whole Apple Dev Tech Talk today was under  
NDA, but I want to comment on two points

On 2007-01-31, at 16:16, valentina-request at lists.macserve.net wrote:

> * should we only set some compiler switch or we need redesign code ?
It depends massively on your code and the styl how you do it NOW.  
Even more is your code really Obj-C or C++??? It's not clear (and not  
announced as again and again pointed out today) IF GC will only works  
on "real" Obj-C2(!!) objects OR for all code. So GC seems not to be  
THAT big GC, but a we will sell many copies of Leopard feature ;-)

> * should we have provide 2 versions of framework or
>     GC-version should become single choice?

If you want to support GC then yes I'm afraid you need two different  
version. All this cool stuff e.g. GC, 64bit, ... are ONLY and really  
ONLY available for Leopard. You simply can not build for target  
"Tiger" with this stuff.

While GC seems the "easy side", 64-bit transition of code looks  
really hard. But again Apple is a  company and wants to sell boxes ;-)


Btw. it's so disillusioning to see all this fancy Leopard stuff and  
then go back to work and open REALbasic.

regards

Thorsten Hohage
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objectmanufactur.com - Hamburg,Germany