On Jan 12, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy wrote:
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. ?
Yes, but only if you're creating lots of objects in a loop that is
going to do a lot of iterations. In this case, -release is more
responsible, since it frees up RAM for the next run through the loop,
whereas -autorelease will defer the release for later, and if you
don't create a nested autorelease pool (which you should do anyway in
this case), you'll experience a big memory bubble that will inflate &
burst, which is not a fun user experience if the user has less than 4
GB of physical RAM.
Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>
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