> At best you can know when a dealloction might possibly occur, but this is whenever a reference changes or goes away and usually not pretty helpful.
After a while working with refcounting, I found myself writing code whose natural flow meant I was actually pretty sure, at least for deallocations large enough to care about. I don't even think about it any more, really, I just continue to enjoy my objects going away when I expect them to.
After a while working with refcounting, I found myself writing code whose natural flow meant I was actually pretty sure, at least for deallocations large enough to care about. I don't even think about it any more, really, I just continue to enjoy my objects going away when I expect them to.