Memory - Fresh Beginning

Memory

A collection of 4 posts

Swift Value and Reference type semantics - Structs, Classes, Struct inside Class, Class inside Struct

memory semantics

Swift Value and Reference type semantics - Structs, Classes, Struct inside Class, Class inside Struct

Long ago Swift introduced a nice concept differentiating between value and reference semantic using Struct and Classes. As we all know, Struct is a value semantic, which means when value of one struct is assigned to another struct, only value is copied, not the reference - Which in other words

When to weakify

When to weakify

Today I am going to talk about one of the discussion prone topics on iOS platforms. Detecting memory leaks and when to apply weakify. The topic came up while I was recently performing a code review and there were some discussions on whether there is a memory leak or not.

Advanced debugging in iOS

Advanced debugging in iOS

Other day I was watching this excellent Session on Advanced debugging with Xcode and LLDB presented at WWDC-2018. My post may be called as a gist of this talk, since this post summarizes the talk and all the examples mentioned in this post are taken from the Apple's video with

Swift - Fighting memory leaks in closures

Swift - Fighting memory leaks in closures

Swift is a great language. In fact, it's among my top 3 favorite languages. It is quite strict in terms of discipline and best practices which pay off in the long-term to offer performance and crash-free experience to end-users. There are also many ways where things can go wrong. Today