Re: Delayed termination to allow release
Re: Delayed termination to allow release
- Subject: Re: Delayed termination to allow release
- From: Trygve Inda <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:03:00 +0000
- Thread-topic: Delayed termination to allow release
> --- On Mon, 8/11/08, Trygve Inda <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> My main thread creates a few other objects which have
>> NSThreads and/or
>> timers. I have found that when I quit the app, and the
>> threads are ended,
>> something in the OS is retaining my objects for a bit...
>> They end up never
>> being dealloc'd which messes a few things up as some
>> data is written to disk
>> at this point.
>
>> From the docs:
> "Note that when an application terminates, objects may not be sent a dealloc
> message since the process’s memory is automatically cleared on exit—it is more
> efficient simply to allow the operating system to clean up resources than to
> invoke all the memory management methods."
>
> In other words, you shouldn't assume dealloc will be called and it's generally
> not a good idea to perform essential cleanup there. The designated place for
> application cleanup code is applicationWillTerminate:.
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
Hmmm... This is not so much my app cleaning up (it is not dealloc on my
AppController) but a series of sub objects which dealloc. I guess I'll have
to break out the cleanup code... Makes it less clean :) , but oh well.
T.
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