Garbage Collection? - langstraad

"Garbage collection" is a computer science term concerned with memory management and reclamation of resources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)

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Friday, May 01 2009 @ 02:41 PM PDT

Garbage Collection? - Daniel Staal

As a slightly more technical answer:

Directly, nothing. However Quicktime is often used embedded in other applications as a library. And under the Cocoa, applications are either garbage collected or not, as a whole. Any libraries they include will be run under the application's compile-time setting.

The end result is that without garbage collection support this wouldn't work properly (most likely problem would be memory leaks, but others could occur) in some apps, and the user would have no way to tell ahead of time. With support, it can work seamlessly with both garbage-collected and non. (Assuming they didn't throw out support for non...)

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Friday, May 01 2009 @ 06:47 PM PDT