Besides retain cycle leaks, what other kinds of memory bugs do you run into on iOS? And if one took you a long time to track down, which kind was it?
The main kinds are leaks and retain cycles, access to deallocated objects (dangling), abandoned memory that keeps growing without being a leak, and memory corruption from thread races. Each has a different cause and a different tool.
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