Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X

Appendix B

References

This appendix provides a list of references that you should find helpful. They are listed in three categories for ARC, Blocks, and Grand Central Dispatch.

References for ARC

Transitioning to ARC Release Notes

• http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/ObjectiveC/RN-TransitioningToARC/_index.html

ARC Programming Guide by Apple

When you want to know something about ARC, you should read this document first. If you’re reading this book before it, it is ok :-), but you should read it later.

LLVM Document—Automatic Reference Counting

• http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html

This document is something like the specification of ARC. When you want to make sure of its specification, please check this ...