Posts Tagged “Memory Management”

Swift 6.2: Observations (4)October 31, 2025
Swift 6.2 (1)October 29, 2025
Memory Integrity Enforcement (1)September 11, 2025
macOS Tahoe 26 Developer Beta 2 (8)June 24, 2025
Subtle Swift Retain Cycle (1)June 20, 2025
Separate Expressions for +alloc and -init June 2, 2025
NSCache and LRUCache (2)May 9, 2025
ARC Optimization vs. -fstack-protector (1)April 17, 2025
Lifetime Dependencies in Swift 6.2 and Beyond March 19, 2025
Swift Proposal: Opt-in Strict Memory Safety Checking January 22, 2025
PyObjC 11 (1)January 15, 2025
Issues Adopting Swift Testing (16)December 17, 2024
Sequoia Network Extension Memory Leak (3)November 14, 2024
Swift Foundation Unification (3)October 14, 2024
Taligent’s Guide to Designing Programs January 3, 2024
The Bleeding Edge of Swift Concurrency October 2, 2023
Swift 5.9 September 19, 2023
How to Automate Memory Leak Detection With XCTest August 17, 2023
Avoiding Implicit Retain Cycles When Using Swift Function References August 4, 2023
Removing the Python GIL July 19, 2023
A Vision for Using C++ From Swift June 2, 2023
Mojo Programming Language (6)May 4, 2023
Swift Proposal: Noncopyable Structs and Enums (4)March 22, 2023
Clascal in the Lisa Source Code (1)February 9, 2023
NSURLSession Connection Leak (1)January 30, 2023
What Happened to Virtual Memory? (4)January 26, 2023
Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 January 6, 2023
Introduction to Move-Only Types in Swift November 29, 2022
Subclassing for Debugging (1)October 12, 2022
Zeroing Freed Memory (4)September 20, 2022
Garbage Collection in JavaScriptCore August 19, 2022
Swift Pitch: “borrow” and “take” Parameter Ownership Modifiers August 12, 2022
Swift Proposal: Move Function July 26, 2022
Weak Self: Closure Rules of Thumb (1)May 18, 2022
Lifetime of State Properties in SwiftUI March 29, 2022
Roadmap for Improving Swift Performance Predictability (1)December 23, 2021
Metal-cpp (1)November 26, 2021
Mouse Pointer Memory Leak (4)November 15, 2021
Swift “guard” Capture Specifier Pitch August 4, 2021
WWDC 2021 Links (1)June 7, 2021
Kernel Assisting the Objective-C Runtime June 7, 2021
Underused and Overused GCD Patterns (3)March 16, 2021
An iOS Zero-click Radio Proximity Exploit Odyssey (1)December 7, 2020
Introducing Swift Atomics October 2, 2020
Swift Runtime Heap Objects and Type Layout September 8, 2020
Improved KVO in Big Sur (6)August 26, 2020
macOS 10.15.6 Bug Causes Crashes With Virtualization (2)July 28, 2020
Implicit Capturing of Self in Swift 5.3 July 13, 2020
Optimizing the Objective-C Runtime in Big Sur (1)July 6, 2020
InterposeKit June 1, 2020
Chris Lattner on Swift, TensorFlow, MLIR, and SiFive March 27, 2020
Objective-C Quiz (6)February 6, 2020
On the Road to Swift 6 (5)January 24, 2020
Profiling Mac Unit Tests (2)January 20, 2020
Project Zero Remote iPhone Exploitation January 10, 2020
KVO, My Enemy (1)January 10, 2020
Rewriting m4vgalib in Rust January 3, 2020
Swift Evolution Pitch: Modify Accessors (4)December 19, 2019
CGImageSource Memory Leak December 9, 2019
C++ Development Tips August 15, 2019
@autoreleasepool Uses in 2019 Swift May 31, 2019
Implementing [NSCell copyWithZone:] in Swift to Avoid Crashes in AppKit (1)April 9, 2019
High Memory Use With Vapor and MySQL (2)April 2, 2019
Fast Safe Mutable State in Swift 5 February 7, 2019
Swift-ObjC Bridge Using @dynamicCallable January 31, 2019
The Zig Programming Language (2)November 16, 2018
The Power of Key Paths in Swift November 2, 2018
Working Around a Swift “nonmutating” Crash October 12, 2018
Visualizing Pointer Addresses as Emoji August 23, 2018
Objective-C Features That I Wish Existed (3)July 31, 2018
Swift 4.2’s New Calling Convention July 5, 2018
Handles Are the Better Pointers June 27, 2018
Dealing With Weak in Closure-based Delegation (3)March 23, 2018
Smart Debugging March 13, 2018
Solving a Mysterious Heap Corruption Crash March 9, 2018
C String Functions in Swift: a malloc’y Story March 2, 2018
Optimizing Global Constant Data Structures Using Relative References February 20, 2018
C String Functions in Swift February 1, 2018
Swift’s Reflective Underpinnings January 26, 2018
Swift String ABI, Performance, and Ergonomics (1)January 16, 2018
Unregistering Block-based NotificationCenter Observers January 9, 2018
Firefox Quantum (8)November 17, 2017
Swift 4 Weak References September 27, 2017
Swift.Unmanaged August 14, 2017
NSNotificationCenter Thread Safety July 24, 2017
The Dangers of Using Nonatomic Properties May 2, 2017
Automatic Memory Leak Detection on iOS (1)April 12, 2017
Stop the weak-strong Swift Dance (2)April 5, 2017
Swift Ownership Manifesto (2)February 18, 2017
Swift Weak References and Type Erasure January 29, 2017
Chris Lattner ATP Interview (16)January 23, 2017
Swift: Challenges and Opportunity for Language and Compiler Research (1)December 19, 2016
Golang’s Real-Time GC in Theory and Practice December 19, 2016
The Opportunity of Swift on the Server (2)December 12, 2016
How to Do XCTestCase tearDown Wrong (and Right) December 8, 2016
Why Does calloc Exist? December 7, 2016
Mulle-objc: a New Objective-C Compiler and Runtime November 27, 2016
Passing an Array of Strings From Swift to C (1)November 8, 2016
Working Without a Nib (10)October 18, 2016
Optional Non-Escaping Swift Closures (7)October 11, 2016
Swift 3.0 Unsafe World (1)October 5, 2016
Xcode Memory Graph Debugger Tips September 29, 2016
Looking Back on Swift 3 and Ahead to Swift 4 (1)July 30, 2016
Swift Closure Capture Semantics July 25, 2016
Packing Bytes in Swift May 13, 2016
No More Logs for Missing NSAutoreleasePool May 11, 2016
stringdups: Identify Duplicate Strings or Other Objects May 6, 2016
Swift Proposal: Mutability and Foundation Value Types (3)April 22, 2016
Performance Comparisons of Common Operations, 2016 Edition April 21, 2016
How to Simulate Memory Pressure April 2, 2016
Proposed New Swift Collections Model March 3, 2016
Concurrent Memory Deallocation in the Objective-C Runtime (1)February 12, 2016
Swift Optimization Tips and Reference Counting February 3, 2016
Exploring Swift Dictionary’s Implementation (1)January 23, 2016
Swift’s Lazy Weak References December 11, 2015
Swift Plans (4)December 9, 2015
How Swift Implements Unowned and Weak References (2)November 24, 2015
Shoot the Heap November 6, 2015
Swift’s @noescape Attribute October 26, 2015
MallocNanoZone=1 Makes for Hard Debugging (1)October 15, 2015
Safer Block-based NSNotificationCenter API August 26, 2015
[Objective] C++: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (2)August 23, 2015
Address Sanitizer July 31, 2015
Weak and Unowned References in Swift (5)July 24, 2015
@weakify and @strongify Macros (1)June 1, 2015
How Not to Crash #1: KVO and Manual Bindings May 15, 2015
Using Atomics to Get Rid of @synchronized May 12, 2015
Unmanaged April 28, 2015
Wrapping libxml2 for Swift March 12, 2015
Using cp to Copy a Lot of Files (3)March 10, 2015
Core Data vs. ARC (2)February 28, 2015
Weakness February 1, 2015
Tracking Down a WebKit Crasher (1)November 7, 2014
Backtrace Album Released October 14, 2014
Swift Retain/Release and Pointer Arithmetic August 1, 2014
Exploring Swift Memory Layout July 19, 2014
Compiler Writers Gone Wild: ARC Madness June 28, 2014
Autoreleasing Core Foundation Objects With ARC May 12, 2014
ARC’s Fast Autorelease January 31, 2014
The Foundation Collection Classes (2)December 9, 2013
ARM64 and You September 27, 2013
iOS on arm64 Has Inline Retain Count in the isa (3)September 24, 2013
ARC vs. MRC Performance (3)September 10, 2013
ARC Gotcha: Unexpectedly Short Lifetimes December 10, 2012
Automatic Reference Counting (5)June 15, 2011

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