Re: [xmlvm-users] Garbage collector + Objective C

[Wolfgang K. <wol...@xm...>]

We make use of  reference counting and the autorelease pool mechanism
offered by Cocoa. Since reference counting is not as powerful as a
full-fledged garbage collector there is a limitation with this approach:
Using reference counting does not clean up unreferenced circular data
structures, what a garbage collector of course would do. So you have to
be a little bit careful to avoid this - otherwise the cross compiled
application would have a memory leak.

-- Wolfgang


Panayotis Katsaloulis wrote:
> I have this question:
>
> iPhone does not have GC, while Java is the only way to go.
> Given that iPhone is a small device, with limited memory (and they  
> have disabled GC for a good reason), how is memory managed with XMLVM?
>
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