Apple Interview Question


Team: QA
Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person




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Prior to ARC developers had to manually do memory management With ARC, at compile-time , compiler adds release, retain or autorelease statements to the code..

AutoRelease is a feature where an object is kept in an autorelease pool, and is released at a later point.

- Anonymous November 04, 2012 | Flag Reply
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Also make sure to add that the Autorelease pool is is drained at the top of the run cycle which is one of the reasons to not use the default pool for large data sets.

- Griffin May 24, 2013 | Flag


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