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Memory Management
date
article
2014-07-08 Memory Leaks in iOS 7
by Brian Krupp (over at Dr. Dobb's Journal)
2014-05-09 Friday Q&A: When an Autorelease Isn't
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2013-11-19 Debugging a memory increase, using Generational Analysis
by James Van Metre (over at iCodeBlog)
2013-08-07 Retain Still Matters
by Jeremy W. Sherman (over at Jeremy W. Sherman)
2013-03-18 Mixing ARC and MRC source code in the same class
by Geppy Parziale (over at invasivecode)
2012-12-28 Friday Q&A: What Happens When You Load a Byte of Memory
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2012-11-28 Surprising ARC performance characteristics
by Graham Lee (over at Secure Mac Programming)
2012-05-22 Automatic Reference Counting on iOS
by José Cruz (over at Dr. Dobb's Journal)
2012-05-10 Actually finding a memory management error with Instruments
by Mark Dalrymple (over at theNerdBlog)
2012-04-13 Friday Q&A: Nib Memory Management
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2012-02-23 Why we don't trust -retainCount
by Graham Lee (over at Secure Mac Programming)
2011-12-18 retainCount is useless
by Bill Bumgarner (over at bbum's weblog-o-mat)
2011-11-07 Beginning ARC in iOS 5 Tutorial Part 1
by Ray Wenderlich (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2011-09-30 Friday Q&A: Automatic Reference Counting
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2011-09-06 Memory Management
by Ravi R Dixit (over at Quagnitia iPhone Learning)
2011-05-20 Friday Q&A: The Inner Life of Zombies
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2011-02-15 How To Debug Memory Leaks with XCode and Instruments Tutorial
by Ray Wenderlich (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2011-02-07 Memory Management in Objective-C Tutorial
by Ray Wenderlich (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2011-02-07 Memory Management in Objective-C Tutorial
by Ray Wenderlich (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2010-12-28 Objective-C Memory Management & Garbage Collection
by Colin Wheeler (over at Cocoa Samurai)
2010-12-17 Friday Q&A: Custom Object Allocators in Objective-C
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2010-12-15 How to Program for Low Memory Conditions
by Matthijs Hollemans (over at Hollance)
2010-12-03 Friday Q&A: Accessors, Memory Management, and Thread Safety
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2010-10-17 When is a Leak not a Leak? Using Heapshot Analysis to Find Undesirable Memory Growth
by Bill Bumgarner (over at bbum's weblog-o-mat)
2010-06-30 Assign, retain, copy: pitfalls in Obj-C property accessors
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2010-06-28 How I Manage Memory
by Brent Simmons (over at inessential.com)
2010-05-12 A look at how malloc works on the Mac
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2010-04-30 Friday Q&A: Dealing with Retain Cycles
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2010-01-14 iPhone Memory Debugging with NSZombie and Instruments (Video)
by Mark Johnson (over at MarkJNet)
2009-10-25 Memory and thread-safe custom property methods
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2009-10-19 Here Is A Little Help To Understand Memory Management on the iPhone (Video)
by Matt Drake (over at How to Make iPhone Apps)
2009-10-09 Finding Memory Leaks in iPhone Code (Video)
by Charlie Key (over at Switch On The Code)
2009-09-13 NSAutoreleasePool: it is teh awesomeness
by Ben Britten (over at benbritten.com)
2009-09-04 Implementing NSCopying (or NSCopyObject() considered harmful)
by Rob Napier (over at Cocoaphony)
2009-09-01 Memory management - autorelease and NIB files
by Henrik B (over at Humble Coder)
2009-08-18 Understanding Autoreleasing
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2009-08-10 Memory management - the basics
by Henrik B (over at Humble Coder)
2009-07-27 Rules to avoid retain cycles
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2009-07-20 Objective-C Dev Programming Tutorial On Memory Management
by Johann Dowa (over at iPhone Development Tutorials and Tips)
2009-07-18 Memory Management Basics Tutorial Video (Video)
by Mark Johnson (over at MarkJNet)
2009-05-03 cocoa: app memory usage
by Allen Brunson (over at i'm so full of ideas)
2009-02-18 Three "Brain Triggers" for Remembering How to Manage Memory in Objective-C
by Clint Harris (over at ClintHarris.net)
2009-02-12 iPhone Programming Part 2 : Objective C Memory Management
by Hans Hamm (over at coders[,...])
2009-02-09 Clang! Powerful Memory Profiling for the iPhone
by anonymous (over at model metrics)
2009-01-12 Memory Management with Objective C / Cocoa / iPhone
by Mehmet Akten (over at memo.tv)
2008-10-05 Cocoa memory management for smarties, Part 3: accessors
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2008-10-03 Dealing With Memory Warnings in View Controllers
by anonymous (over at Fiery Robot!)
2008-08-25 Cocoa memory management for smarties, Part 2: working with a nib
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2008-08-04 Memory Management
by John Muchow (over at iOS Developer Tips)
2008-07-28 Cocoa memory management for smarties, Part 1: release me not
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2008-04-02 Fixing Memory Leaks With Instruments
by Matt Long (over at Cocoa Is My Girlfriend)
2007-12-11 Memory Management Programming Guide for Cocoa
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2007-12-11 Garbage Collection Programming Guide
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2005-11-20 Cocoa memory management & exceptions
by Chris Hanson (over at Chris Hanson)
2005-11-02 Debugging retain counts
by Aaron Hillegass (over at theNerdBlog)
2005-09-19 The Why of release and retain
by Uli Kusterer (over at Orange Juice Liberation Front)
2003-06-10 Knowing When to Let Go: Better Living Through Memory Management
by Rob Rix (over at O\'Reilly Network)
2003-04-14 Guide to Cocoa Memory Management
by Dely (over at Everything)
2002-10-25 Memory Management in Cocoa
by James Duncan Davidson (over at O\'Reilly Network)
2001-07-27 Memory Management in Objective-C
by Mike Beam (over at O\'Reilly Network)
unknown Optimized Object Generation
by Nat (over at Mulle kybernetiK)
unknown Allocation Basics & Foundation
by Nat (over at Mulle kybernetiK)