Memory - Fresh Beginning

Memory

A collection of 3 posts

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 [https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/412/] 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

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