Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X

Introduction

Preface

This book is about ARC, Blocks, and Grand Central Dispatch in iOS and OS X. It’s a bit different from other books. In short, this book is quite deep, and explains the following.

• ARC, a memory management mechanism newly introduced for iOS 5 and OS X Lion.
• Blocks and Grand Central Dispatch, introduced for iOS 4 and OS X Snow Leopard, are mainly for writing multithreaded applications.

These new technologies are essential to develop on iOS 5 and OS X Lion. Although they seem easy to understand, in fact, you will encounter pitfalls if you don’t really master them. In this book, I explain them along with the Apple’s source codes themselves so that you can have a deeper understanding than by just reading Apple’s references. ...