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Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift
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Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift

by Florent Vilmart, Giordano Scalzo, Sergio De Simone
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
414 pages
10h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Copying

Copying an object doesn't increase its reference count, and ownership can be safely passed from one object to the other. The object's copy will have a reference count of one just after the copying process, no matter what the original object's reference count was.

The text property of UILabel is marked as copy, so any NSString * passed as the text property can be safely deallocated. If the text property of UILabel was assign, the string would need to be retained by an external object. If it was retain, this would probably unnecessarily extend object lifetimes.

In Swift, String is a struct that benefits the value type memory behaviors, and it is always copied. It is still possible to disable ARC with Objective-C 2.0, so let's use this ...

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