XCode 3.0

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Mark, I agree. It seems that life is always made tougher before it is  
made easier; or what is the old expression? It's always darkest  
before the dawn!

Joe Wilkins

On Feb 26, 2007, at 10:45 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
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