Re: [Chicken-users] IPhone

[Alex Queiroz]

Hallo,

On 4/13/09, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Nicholas "Indy" Ray <address@hidden> wrote:
>  > I think actually getting it running should be trivial, interfacing
>  > with cocoa might be a bit harder, but not impossible. I figure the
>  > largest problems is that the Apple developer agreement has strict
>  > requirements against GC, and in a GC language I figure it's likely to
>  > run up against the memory limit, and get the IPhone kernel to kill the
>  > app before you have a chance to GC.
>
>
> This is so crazy. As if GC'd memory management would be less safe
>  the manual memory management. The absurdity is breathtaking.
>
>  (this is just a general side note about Apple's policies - not about
>  your comment)
>

     I am not agreeing with Apple at all, but they might be afraid of GC pauses.

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-alex
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