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So far, I’ve been ignoring a huge part of app development, memory management. It can be a difficult and painful topic, and has been the bane of many a programmer. I, personally, have spent days tracking down memory leaks and over-release bugs. If you have any programming experience, you’ve probably dedicated a significant portion of your brain to dealing with memory management rules.
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Recent studies conclude that garbage collection matches the efficiency of reference counting only when the total heap memory is at least 4 to 5 times that of the application’s memory footprint: Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management by Matthew Hertz and Emery D. Berger, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA.
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Bucanek, J. (2013). The Elephant in the Room. In: Learn iOS App Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5063-0_21
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