Re: Memory Management
Re: Memory Management
- Subject: Re: Memory Management
- From: Chris Purcell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:15:01 +0100
- (void)setName:(NSString *)newNamemet {
[newName retain];
[_name release];
_name = newName;
}
This is fine.
Thread safe ?
No, obviously not. It would need a lock around it, if you were to do
it that way. The question then becomes: what's faster, a lock or an
autorelease? In most situations an autorelease, I would think, since
it would be a once-off, versus potentially having to acquire the lock
many times. Unless of course your value changes far more frequently
than you access it, in which case I suppose a lock might be faster.
You would always need a lock around it. Autorelease is not magic. It
certainly won't get you thread safety.
But then, trying to make accessors thread-safe is almost surely not
useful, as per the logic I proposed in my previous rant :)
Kritter out
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