[runtime] Use objc_[retain|release|autorelease] instead of sending messages. by rolfbjarne · Pull Request #19415 · dotnet/macios (original) (raw)

Calling the direct functions instead of sending messages is slightly faster,
and additionally it may make some static analyzers think we've enabled ARC for
our Objective-C code (which we don't, because we need to manually manage
reference counting).

These direct functions aren't in any public header (they're in a private header),
but they're documented as part of ARC here: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html#runtime-support,
and clang emits references to these methods from user code, so it should be safe for us to use them.

Fixes #19413.