Life Before Automatic Reference Counting -- ARC Rules -- ARC Implementation -- Getting Started with Blocks -- Blocks Implementation -- Grand Central Dispatch -- GCD Basics -- GCD Implementation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
If you want to develop efficient, smooth-running applications, controlling concurrency and memory are vital. Automatic Reference Counting is Apple's game-changing memory management system, new to Xcode 4.2. Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X shows you how ARC works and how best to incorporate it into your applications.