fix: resolve Metal ARC FIXME with explanation comment #13688

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ayanhan wants to merge 1 commit into tinygrad:master from ayanhan:fix-metal-arc-comment

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ayanhan commented Dec 15, 2025

Per Objective-C memory management conventions, methods NOT starting with alloc/new/copy/mutableCopy return +0 (autoreleased) objects. Since we keep references to these objects, calling .retained() is correct.
Reference: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Articles/mmRules.html


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