#OSX #ARC - Apple is ready to ask Developers to make improvements to incoming Mac
Apps. Through the Apple Developers portal, Apple is asking OS X
Developers to change the way their incoming apps treat memory. Rather
than ‘Garbage Collection’, Apple is asking Developers to use Automatic
Reference Counting (ARC) for memory management. The change applies only
to incoming apps, and for apps submitted after May 1. Developers should
have seen this coming, though; Apple began favoring ARC over Garbage
Collection back in the days on OS X Mountain Lion.
For Developers with apps in the works already, Apple is noting it’s best
to use Xcode’s migration tool to transition from Garbage Collection to
ARC. If you’re wondering what this means for you as a user, this all has
to do with how your apps will treat memory. On a basic level, ARC treats
the process of managing your device memory differently, and potentially
speeds things up since there’s no background process happening. With
Garbage Collection, much of the memory management was done
automatically, but could cause actions to be put on hold momentarily.
The ARC method does make things a little more tedious for
Development, but when done properly, will likely improve app
performance. It’s also a bit more real-time for memory management.
ARC is the memory management used for iOS, so this is likely a move to streamline memory maintenance.
Title : how OS X apps treat memory with move to ARC
Description : #OSX #ARC - Apple is ready to ask Developers to make improvements to incoming Mac Apps. Through the Apple Developers portal, Apple is a...