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Re: Why does the memory increase?
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Re: Why does the memory increase?


  • Subject: Re: Why does the memory increase?
  • From: "Timothy J. Wood" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 11:59:17 -0700

On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 07:41 AM, Lorenzo Puleo wrote:

Hi,
Before launching this task the memory was 5MB, and at the end of this task
the memory remains at 9MB. Since I remove all the objects from the instance
gItemsToCopyArray, it should come back to the initial value...
Please, may someone explain/fix this?


Because nothing is getting deallocated. You are overusing the autorelease features of Foundation here.

You can do one of two things to make this code deallocate objects:

- Allocate an NSAutoreleasePool at the top of -StartTask and release it at the bottom
- Better yet, use the non-autoreleased creation methods like so:




- (void)StartTask
{
int i;
gItemsToCopyArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

for(i=0; i < 50000; i++){
[self AddObjectToList];
}

// no need to remove the objects, this will happen automatically when the array is deallocated
[gItemsToCopyArray release];
}

- (void)AddObjectToList
{
int i;
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];

for(i = 0; i<10; i++){
NSNumber *number;
number = [[NSNumber alloc] initWithInt: i];
[dict setObject:number forKey:@"Name"];
[number release];
[gItemsToCopyArray addObject:dict];
}

[dict release];
}



- (void)StartTask
{
int i;
gItemsToCopyArray = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:0];
[gItemsToCopyArray retain];

for(i=0; i < 50000; i++){
[self AddObjectToList];
}

[gItemsToCopyArray removeAllObjects];
[gItemsToCopyArray release];
}

- (void)AddObjectToList
{
int i;
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];

for(i = 0; i<10; i++){
[dict setObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:i] forKey:@"Name"];
[gItemsToCopyArray addObject:dict];
}
}


Thank you
--
Lorenzo Puleo
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