Re: [opensource-dev] About memory management on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) potentially affecting all viewers

On July 8, 2016 at 4:36:39 PM, Geenz Spad (ge...@exodusviewer.com ) wrote: To my knowledge, manual memory management is still supported under OS X 10.12, It would take an incredible amount of effort to deprecate since you’d need to fundamentally change NSObject,

Re: [opensource-dev] About memory management on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) potentially affecting all viewers

https://xkcd.com/386/ With that out of the way, autorelease pools don't have much to do with garbage collection - in fact the document that you've linked to specifically outlines the following with regards to autorelease pools and GC: > In a garbage-collected environment,

Re: [opensource-dev] About memory management on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) potentially affecting all viewers

Since it’s clear you just want to argue and have no interest in understanding memory management, we’ll leave it at that then. I really doubt the other hundred people subscribed to this list are interested. --  Cinder Roxley Sent with Airmail On July 8, 2016 at 3:13:44 PM, Geir Nøklebye (ge

[opensource-dev] About memory management on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) potentially affecting all viewers

I cannot see there is anything “advanced” MRR (manual retain-release) going on in: NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc]init]; insert your viewer code here [pool release]; That can’t be handled with @autoreleasepool, if you even need to handle it outside the main thre

Re: [opensource-dev] About memory management on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) potentially affecting all viewers

None of the examples you pasted have anything to do with Apple’s garbage collector, hun. They’re just examples of advanced MRR.  As I already stated, the viewer has never used Apple’s garbage collector. It uses a combination of autorelease pools and MRR which is perfectly fine to do, especially

[opensource-dev] About memory management on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) potentially affecting all viewers

> Cinder Roxley said: > The viewer has never used the garbage collector so it?s not an issue. Why is it that in llopenglview-objc.mm, as en example, we have statement like: NSOpenGLPixelFormat *pixelFormat = [[[NSOpenGLPixelFormat alloc] initWithAttributes:attrs] autorelease]; or - (void)d