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Automatic Reference Counting

Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) is a memory management feature of the Clang compiler providing automatic reference counting for the Objective-C and Swift programming languages. At compile time, it inserts into the object code messages retain and release which increase and decrease the reference count at run time, marking for deallocation those objects…

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Objective-C

Swift

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Automatic Reference Counting

Nodes36
Edges35
Triples4
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.055556
Components1

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Automatic Reference Counting

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related to External links · 4
Automatic Reference Counting → ARC, Developer Library, The Swift Programming Language, Transitioning

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arc references weak reference object objects objective-c os swift automatically zeroing value deallocated ios code declared memory runtime strong garbage

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Automatic Reference Countingrelated to External linksTransitioning0.60section
Automatic Reference Countingrelated to External linksARC0.60section
Automatic Reference Countingrelated to External linksDeveloper Library0.60section
Automatic Reference Countingrelated to External linksThe Swift Programming Language0.60section

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