XCode 3.0

[Mark Wieder]

Joe-

Sunday, February 25, 2007, 10:13:00 AM, you wrote:

> <http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/07/xcode-30-a-great-developer-
addition/>>

Sounds promising. I do want to point out, however, that garbage
collection is one of those good news/bad news things. It's great not
to have to worry about remembering to free up the memory that you
allocate and when to do it and in what order to do it. It's definitely
one of the more programmer-friendly techniques to come along in the
last decade or so. But the fact that you're deferring that task to the
underlying engine means that you give up the ability to decide when it
happens. And this can come back and bite you in real-time apps: in the
middle of an action game, during a midi sequence, etc. It's supposed
to happen during idle time, but I've had to hack my way around it in
an embedded java system before...

Just my two cents. I *am* looking forward to xcode 3.0.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net