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Hmm...searching for pizza, "hello" upside-down on the calculator, giant robot translation, article to-do sticky note, 88mph, Newton Highlands weather...now where have I see that Dashboard screenshot before?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Messiah Multi-sized icons? Oh Boy! Why didn't I think of that? Oh wait, I did: http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=24333 Yeah, but only four years ago. How about six? http://arstechnica.…
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Here are the three points I made in the Ars WWDC thread, plus some comments at the end. 1. ZFS is being ported to Mac OS X. Apple has some involvement in this effort, but it's just that: a port. Lots of file systems have been ported to Mac OS X…
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Quote: Originally posted by chris v I got a laugh out of Siracusa making a hotlink for Slashdot that went to the fainting goat vid here: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/osx-fiveyears.ars/2 Ha, hadn't noticed that! While I was writing th…
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Quote: I was reading the ARS article and saw things like "endemic rage in the mac community" or something like that. "Something like that" indeed. Is it too much effort to take a second glance and get the actual quote? Quote: Dissatisfactio…
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Quote: The real tipping point for VM was after the semantics were solid enough to allow for design of appropriate dedicated hardware to generate the needed speed [...] Note this is very different from you prediction that future simple speed increas…
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Quote: Look, we agree that GC is good. We agree that it can lead to some big gains for simple code. Where I think we disagree is where GC needs to go next - in my experience, it breaks down for too many situations that could be easily handled if it…
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Quote: And there you jumped from 'object management' to 'memory management'. Which do you mean? They are two very different areas. The latter is pretty well hammered out, but the former doesn't even have a standard formal notation or terminology, m…
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Quote: Ah, but there's a huge difference between the deterministic behaviour of VM, and the semantics of abstractions. Huge. Massive. Gulf-like. There's no difference from the perspective of an individual program. Both GC and swapping could hap…
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Quote: all objects (NSString etc) created in a local scope are to be added to the autorelease pool and released at the top of the runloop. All instance variables have a retain count of one when alloced. when the containing object is released they …
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Quote: How about, instead of objects being specifically stated to be retained, they were retained by default, and needed to be specifically *not* retained? Would that make it more palatable to you? It's ref-counted GC by default, but easily escapab…
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Quote: I just see Siracusa trying to hold onto his position and not doing particularly well. He is having to revert to a "My Defined Future" is where the problem is. It's a discussion of problems that may occur in the future. It necessarily req…
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Quote: Sooooo... what you're saying is that you want fully-auto GC for when it makes sense, and the option of dropping out of it when it doesn't. Which is *PRECISELY* my position. Your articles seem to press for auto-GC 24/7, because hey, the ha…
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Quote: I understand where you're coming from, but until the *algorithm* exists that can efficiently handle cyclic groups, it's pretty much a losing game. With higher levels of abstraction come denser object groupings. With denser object groupings c…
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Quote: I agree that conventions and idioms are a poor way to enforce memory management policy, and I'd like to see better support for same at the language or even library level. I disagree, however, that GC is The One Thing that will kill Apple... …
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Quote: OS X is already adding an equivalent memory management model to C#. The very same thing he critized in OS X/Obj-C: "And no, don't talk to me about adding garbage collection to Objective-C. That is exactly the sort of "half-way" mindset that …
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That 256MB DIMM that Apple keeps costs negative $270: Stock RAM: 256MB (1 DIMM in the one and only slot) Upgrade to 1GB: $425 extra at Apple online store Actual retail value of DDR333 1GB DIMM: $155 (NewEgg.com) Crazy Apple Mat…
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Quote: I still think a spatial viewing system is nice to have in your back pocket to some extent, though I'm not as militantly anti-DB/pro-folder as Sircausa is. The guy who petitioned Apple three years ago to create a BFS-like volume format wit…
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Who? Hm, excited about QE2D...I guess so, but not like I'm excited about, say, the next Zelda game or whatever
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Quote: Not sure what you mean exactly, but... When Tiger is out and/or the NDA for the WWDC sessions is no longer relevant, remind me to revisit this thread and explain what's so funny