Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Sep 2005 17:18 UTC, submitted by Eugenia
Java Developers continue to debate the question of memory management solutions. Which is best? Although Objective-C's retain/release runs smoother and faster than Java's garbage collection, it places a much larger burden on the developer and introduces a much larger risk of memory leaks.
Thread beginning with comment 37224
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE: Objective-C gives you a choice
by japail on Wed 28th Sep 2005 00:35 UTC in reply to "Objective-C gives you a choice"
japail
Member since:
2005-06-30

The GNU runtime can be compiled with support for the Boehm conservative garbage collector, and POC works with it as well. There are of course limitations and caveats to using garbage collection in a C language.

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 1