{"id":722,"date":"2011-07-21T11:53:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T23:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2011-07-21T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T23:54:22","slug":"something-for-delphi-to-be-proud-of-in-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/722\/","title":{"rendered":"Something for Delphi to be proud of&#8230; in Lion ?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute]<\/span><\/span><p>Some people often complain loudly and passionately that Delphi needs a garbage collector and that reference counting is not good enough, but if I read this correctly, in the new OS X release &#8211; &#8216;Lion&#8217; &#8211; Apple seem to think that reference counting is an improvement over more sophisticated garbage collection techniques.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->From the details discussed in <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/reviews\/2011\/07\/mac-os-x-10-7.ars\/10\" target=\"_blank\">page 10 of a a very, VERY detailed review of Lion<\/a>, it seems on the face of it that Apple&#8217;s brand new &#8220;ARC&#8221; (<strong>A<\/strong>utomatic <strong>R<\/strong>eference <strong>C<\/strong>ounting) seems to work exactly like Delphi&#8217;s own automatic reference counting of interfaces (and strings and dynamic arrays&#8230;) !! \u00a0Even if not entirely identical, the similarities are certainly close enough to be worthy of a raised eyebrow or two, and a little puff of pride at Embarcadero (or among former Borland&#8217;ers, where-ever they may now be).<\/p>\n<p>Where Delphi leads, it appears Apple sometimes follows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of this, this perhaps should not be all that surprising &#8230; some people may not be aware that Delphi owes <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Object_Pascal#Early_history_at_Apple\" target=\"_blank\">a debt of gratitude to Apple for ObjectPascal<\/a> in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute]<\/span><\/span>Some people often complain loudly and passionately that Delphi needs a garbage collector and that reference counting is not good enough, but if I read this correctly, in the new OS X release &#8211; &#8216;Lion&#8217; &#8211; Apple seem to think that reference counting is an improvement over more sophisticated garbage collection techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[292],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delphi","tag-delphi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-bE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}