Automatic Reference Counting

Inc, A. Automatic Reference Counting. The Swift Programming Language.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Link

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html

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Mechanisms

• Weak Reference Registry
  • If the child held a strong reference back to the parent, the two would form a retain cycle

    This sourceShows how mutual strong references keep counts above zero, prevent deallocation, and cause a memory leak.

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