Re: The orca, GNUstep's mascot

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 28 Apr 2008, at 17:09, hns@computer.org wrote:

> > See... this is gnustep, so while you could do that, it would best  
> > be done as:
> >
> > RELEASE(willy);
>
> Well, I never understood completely why is it better (or best) to
> replace some standard Obj-C method call syntax by standard C function
> call syntax that breaks compilation on OSX without adding some
> defines.
>
> I know that it allows to remove/undef all RELEASE() calls if we have a
> working GC runtime.

For what it's worth, I no longer think that's a good reason for using  
RELEASE() ... processor speeds have improved so much over the years  
that the performance overhead of calls to -release is really not  
important.