> I think it depends what language you weaned yourself on. If you've used Lisp > or some other > functional language, manual reclamation is an unthinkable monstrosity. If you > weaned yourself > on C or similar languages, manual reclamation seems like the default state of > play.
Its also going to be an issue whether you are the sort of person who worries at the technical details and fusses over memory footprints (and whether you think those things are important). I had to laugh just yesterday when I came across this article: http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/understanding-garbage-collection-in-.net/ (Yes, I do .NET as well as Cocoa) No real surprises there, except for the closing paragraphs which can be paraphrased down to "If you need memory to be collected efficiently, you should implement IDisposable and call Dispose() explicitly when you are done with your objects". Which gives a net gain of zero, since you need to call Dispose() exactly where you used to call Release(). To make the automatic model (GC) work efficiently every time, you need to replicate the manual (retain/release) model, all the while presumably telling yourself that "this is so much better than what I had".
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