mikeash.com: Friday Q&A 2011-09-30: Automatic Reference CountingSince the moment Apple announced it, readers have asked me to write about Automatic Reference Counting, or ARC. Today is the day. I'll talk about Apple's new memory management system, how it works, and how to get the most out of it. Conceptual The Clang static analyzer is a really useful tool for finding memory management errors in code. If you're like me, you've looked at the output of the analyz
