macOS Garbage Collection

[laprej]

Has anyone else run into the problem that using Garbage Collection causes your project to crash? What could cause this? I would hope that if it were running out of memory performance would just degrade, not crash. On the other hand, if it's releasing stuff early, I think that would be indicative of an incorrect implementation on Apple's part, right?

 

[BigJimSlade]

Has anyone else run into the problem that using Garbage Collection causes your project to crash? What could cause this? I would hope that if it were running out of memory performance would just degrade, not crash. On the other hand, if it's releasing stuff early, I think that would be indicative of an incorrect implementation on Apple's part, right?

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[kpua]

There are several possibile causes, but it's impossible to say for sure without seeing a backtrace.

 

[laprej]

I would love to supply the folks at MacRumors with a trace. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be extremely helpful IMO. I'm writing a discrete event simulator using NSInvocations. Otherwise my stack may have 4000+ frames on it (no, I'm not making that number up - early attempts at debugging this showed this to be the case) I feel like many programmers never need to go down this route and that may be why it's not working?