Memory Leaks in Swift: The Silent Killer of iOS Apps
Memory management has always been a defining characteristic of mobile application performance, particularly in constrained environments like iOS. While modern Swift abstracts away many low-level concerns through Automatic Reference Counting (ARC), memory leaks remain one of the most persistent and underestimated issues in production applications. These leaks rarely cause immediate crashes but instead degrade performance over time, leading to increased memory usage, sluggish interfaces, and eventual termination by the operating system. In many cases, the root cause is […]