Re: Release vs. autorelease

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:09:32 -0800

The memory management guides go into great detail on this subject. Autoreleased objects have the trigger of a release delayed until the autorelease pool is "drained." By explicitly releasing an object, you are surrendering ownership of that object and, really, is there a good reason to keep things in memory longer than they need to be? 

-rob.

On Jan 12, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy wrote:


Hi,

In places other than dealloc where memory needs to be released (e.g,
reassigning pointer to objects), is there a difference in doing autorelease or release of the object in terms of perfomance etc. ? I can see that the 
memory is released immediately in one case whereas in the other it is
slightly delayed. Is there any other difference ? What is the right thing to 
do ?

thanks
mohan
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