On 6 Mar 2018, at 17:24, Richard Frith-Macdonald
wrote:
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> I think the -drain method name is unintuitive. To me it sounds like it ought
> to do the same as the gnustep-specific -emptyPool method (a more efficient
> equivalent to draining/releasing the pool and immediately creating a new one)
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 5:24 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald <
richard.frith-macdon...@theengagehub.com> wrote:
>
>
> According to Apple, the -drain method is a synonym for -release (or
> -dealloc since you don't retain autorelease pools).
> So yes, if youi drain a pool the next time an object is autor
> On 6 Mar 2018, at 17:08, Ivan Vučica wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was explaining refcounting and NSAutoreleasePool to someone, and I thought
> referencing GNUstep might be useful to explain the correct mental model of
> the behavior.
>
> But I'm confused about -drain in the non-ARC implementation
