Re: Does cocoa just leak?
Re: Does cocoa just leak?
- Subject: Re: Does cocoa just leak?
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:07:21 +0200
On Sunday, September 30, 2001, at 05:37 , Rosyna wrote:
This causes mem usage to go up about 500k. Thats not too bad, i guess.
I set the URL thats returned to autorelease inside the class. However,
doing:
for (i=0;i<5000;i++)
[[instance URL] path];
Causes the mem usage to go up to 5megs! thats a 4.5meg increase over
"base"!
You think 5 MB is bad? I looped 6000 times over the "containsPoint:"
method of NSBezierPath yesterday, and my application grew about 200 MB!
You can imagine my surprise!
It turns out the whole path gets copied every time you call
"containsPoint:". Simply inserting a local autorelease pool in my loop
cured that problem though.
Why can't that autorelease pool be part of the framework, especially
since that behaviour (duplicating the path) isn't documented? Is it not
autoreleased per default for performance reasons?
j o a r