On 28 Apr 2008, at 17:42, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
On 28 Apr 2008, at 17:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See... this is gnustep, so while you could do that, it would best
be done as:
RELEASE(willy);
Well, I never understood completely why is it better (or best) to
replace some standard Obj-C method call syntax by standard C function
call syntax that breaks compilation on OSX without adding some
defines.
I know that it allows to remove/undef all RELEASE() calls if we
have a
working GC runtime.
For what it's worth, I no longer think that's a good reason for
using RELEASE() ... processor speeds have improved so much over the
years that the performance overhead of calls to -release is really
not important.
Quick and unscientific testing with the debugger on the garbage-
collected variant of the NeXT runtime shows that -[NSObject release]
doesn't even get called in the GC environment, which makes "the
performance overhead of calls to -release" entirely unimportant ;-)
Graham.
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