If you want to develop efficient, smooth-running applications, controlling concurrency and memory are vital. Automatic Reference Counting is Apple's game-changing memory management system, new to Xcode 4.2. Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X shows you how ARC works and how best to incorporate it into your applications. Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) and blocks are key to developing great apps, allowing you to control threads for maximum performance.
If for you, multithreading is an unsolved mystery and ARC is unexplored territory, then this is the book you'll need to make these concepts clear and send you on your way to becoming a master iOS and OS X developer.
What are blocks? How are they used with GCD? Multithreading with GCD Managing objects with ARC
By:
Kazuki Sakamoto, Tomohiko Furumoto Imprint: APress Country of Publication: Germany Edition: 1st ed. Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 11mm
Weight: 408g ISBN:9781430241164 ISBN 10: 1430241160 Pages: 200 Publication Date:25 April 2012 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active