Jamin Guy: A Brief History of iOS Memory Management

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The transition from desktop to mobile introduced a lot of interesting new constraints. It had particularly significant implications for memory management. Jamin talks about why Apple chose automatic reference counting (ARC) over garbage collection, ARC gotchas to avoid, and the importance of CoreData/caching strategies in memory management.

At Nashville Systems Programming Day, August 16, 2014.