Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X: with ARC, Grand Central Dispatch, and Blocks

by Kazuki Sakamoto, Tomohiko Furumoto

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430241164
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	04/25/2012
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

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Table of Contents

1. Life before Automatic Reference Counting

2. ARC Rules

3. ARC Implementation

4. Getting Started with Blocks

5. Blocks Implementation

6. Grand Central Dispatch

7. GCD Basics

8. GCD Implementation

Appendix A. Example of ARC, Blocks and GCD

Appendix B. References