Memory and ARC
Impact of memory leaks
What is a memory leak?
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A leak is memory you no longer use that never gets freed and stays occupied for as long as the app runs. On iOS the main causes are objects whose deinit never runs because of a reference cycle, observers that were never removed, and caches with no limit.
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