On Jun 27, 2009, at 9:22 AM, WT wrote:
I'm curious now... Is that an "in principle" statement, or has it
happened to a project that you know of? If the latter, can you
elaborate a little on the nature of the project, as in what it was
about it that outran the gc?
This is well covered in the archives.
To summarize: if you have a tight loop that is allocating tons of
extremely short lived objects, you can get into a situation where the
collector can't keep up. This is largely fixed in Snow Leopard,
though it s still possible.
b.bum
_______________________________________________
Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com)
Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
