On Jul 31, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Vincent Habchi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greg Parker wrote:
>> ARC and non-ARC scores are the same within measurement noise, except for 
>> [NSMutableString string] where ARC can optimize the autoreleased return 
>> value so the test doesn't need to spin the autorelease pool. Note th
> 
> The end of your message somehow got lost in the cyberspace.

The spurious text was an editing error. No content was harmed.


> I thus suppose that to “clean” a NSMutableString, it is faster to recreate 
> another one rather than use -deleteCharactersInRange: with a range covering 
> the whole string.

Not necessarily. If you have long string and you want to clear it and re-fill 
it with another long string, then it may be faster to use 
-deleteCharactersInRange: in order to avoid memory re-allocation overhead. But 
that possibility depends on precise implementation details of NSMutableString.


-- 
Greg Parker     [email protected]     Runtime Wrangler



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