title: Is garbage collection supported for iPhone applications?
body: <p>Does the iPhone support garbage collection? If it does, then what are the alternate ways to perform the operations that are performaed using <code>+alloc</code> and <code>-init</code> combination:</p>
  
  <pre><code>NSXMLParser *xmlParser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:xmlData];
  UIImage *originalImage = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:data];
  detailViewController = [[[DetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"DetailView bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]] autorelease];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>... and other commands. Thank you in advance for any help or direction that you can provide.</p>