Automatic Reference Counting
- A memory management feature of the Clang compiler. ARC differs from tracing garbage collection in that there is no background process that deallocates the objects asynchronously at run-time. Instead, ARC inserts
retain and release calls into code at compile-time. ← Wikipedia
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