Chapter 21
The Elephant in the Room
So far, I’ve been ignoring a huge part of app development, memory management. It can be a difficult and painful topic, and has been the bane of many a programmer. I, personally, have spent days tracking down memory leaks and over-release bugs. If you have any programming experience, you’ve probably dedicated a significant portion of your brain to dealing with memory management rules.
So how did I pull this off—ignoring such an important topic—for most of this book? The answer is Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). Apple, in collaboration with the Objective-C language developers, has baked efficient—and nearly foolproof—memory management right into Objective-C and iOS. This is a huge boon for modern iOS ...
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