Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal

[David Chisnall]

On 13 Jan 2014, at 04:04, Niels Grewe <address@hidden> wrote:

> There’s no tracing, there’s no attempt made at detecting cyclic references, 
> so you still have to think carefully about memory management.

I think it's slightly more subtle than that.  With ARC, you have to care about 
object ownership, not about memory management.  You get memory management for 
free, but only if you get object ownership right.  This isn't too different 
from tracing schemes, where you still have to think about ensuring that 
references to an object don't outlast their last use if you want to not have to 
think about memory management.

David