On 8/8/09 5:45 PM, Eric Hermanson said: >1. Is it more efficient to malloc a uint8_t array and call NSData >'init no copy', rather than pass in an array allocated with a fixed >length on the stack to the init method that makes a copy of the bytes?
More efficient according to which metric? Memory usage? CPU time? Code readability? If you ever want to support garbage collection, I suggest this usage: - [NSMutableData dataWithCapacity:numBytes]; - mutableBytes to get pointer - fill with your data -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng [email protected] Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
