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OSX Lion and iOS5 now offer an application memory management mechanism called Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). In short, ARC makes memory management the job of the compiler rather than the programmer, which quite often increases performance significantly.
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© 2012 Kazuki Sakamoto
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Sakamoto, K., Furumoto, T. (2012). Life Before Automatic Reference Counting. In: Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4117-1_1
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