[swift-users] Memory management without ARC?

[Andrew W. Donoho]

> On Jan 30, 2016, at 12:56 , Matthias Zenger via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Nevertheless, this collaborative garbage collection scheme where the mark/sweep collector handles cycles and ARC handles the rest doesn't feel like a good solution. It's, at best, a workaround that is impossible to optimize. This is why I was wondering if there's anything else I could do…



Matthias,



	What you’ve described is essentially the Python memory management system. It is reference counted along with a cycle analyzer. It works quite well. I would not reject it out of hand too soon.

	While the standard answer is to use Swift structures for everything, there are Cocoa structures that work with with weak references. NSPointerFunctionsWeakMemory is one such. There are others, <https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSPointerFunctions_Class/index.html <https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSPointerFunctions_Class/index.html>>.

	I suspect your best answer is to actually build something out of swift collection and sequence primitives.



Anon,
Andrew
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