I wouldn't say so, none of the stuff I had (except for that leak just now which wasn't that significant) was ORC specific. In fact, ORC here only has the one specific pitfall with causing a leak which you can circumvent if you know about it. ARC/ORC in general have the entire data race thing which is a hard problem in general. You can take the easy route there with just deep copying the messages you send. Beyond that I'm not fully sure