On Nov 5, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Wade Tregaskis wrote:

>>> Note that (so far as Mac OS X is concerned - I don't know about iOS) this 
>>> only happens with the 64-bit runtime on Intel, on Lion.  Previous runtimes 
>>> don't even have this optimisation, and there's somewhat surprisingly no 
>>> 32-bit implementation of the critical callerAcceptsFastAutorelease().
>> 
>> That’s true, in the sense that ARC itself is not supported on the old 
>> runtime at all, let alone optimizations related to it.
> 
> "ARC is supported in Xcode 4.2 for Mac OS X v10.6 and v10.7 (64-bit 
> applications) and for iOS 4 and iOS 5. Weak references are not supported in 
> Mac OS X v10.6 and iOS 4."
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/ObjectiveC/RN-TransitioningToARC/_index.html

Right. Notice the (64-bit applications) qualifier. If you try to build for 
32-bit, it’ll be the old runtime, and the compiler will give you an error if 
you have ARC turned on.

Charles_______________________________________________

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