I've got a process on a separate thread which creates objects. This
process has it's own autorelease pool, as the docs it seem to
recommend. When I release these objects later on, it's done from
the main thread. Watching the app in ObjectAlloc, I can see that
these objects are never going away, and the various objects they
reference don't seem to be getting deallocated, either.
Can someone explain the correct way to do this, please?
Thanks
-eric
There's nothing complicated about autorelease pools. When you release
the pool, all queued objects in the pool get sent a release message.
An object is queued in the thread's current release pool by sending
an object the autorelease message. It doesn't matter which thread
release is called in.
If your thread is going to be hanging around for a while, you should
release the autorelease pool periodically and create a new one. The
same goes for long running loops.
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