automatic-ref-counting

How to enable/ disable “Automatic Reference Counting”?

December 16, 2023 by Tarik

Globally: Go to “Build Settings”, look for “Apple LLVM compiler 3.0 – Language”. Set the field “Objective-C Automatic Reference Counting” to “No”. For individual files: Go to “Build Phases”, select the file, double-click the “Compiler Flags” column and put “-fno-objc-arc” in it.

What is the equivalent of @autoreleasepool in Swift?

February 14, 2023 by Tarik

The syntax is as follows: autoreleasepool { /* code */ } Unfortunately Apple’s WWDC 2014 videos no-longer seem to be available. Incase it comes back, it was covered in WWDC 2014 session video number 418 “Improving Your App with Instruments”. The swift documentation doesn’t contain anything useful currently. But you can find plenty of good … Read more