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Re: Copy and release


  • Subject: Re: Copy and release
  • From: Evan Schoenberg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:05:33 -0500


On Oct 21, 2004, at 10:35 AM, Nicko van Someren wrote:

It is quite common when writing programs for Cocoa that a data structure needs to be mutable while it is being filled but after that it would be useful for it become immutable in order to take advantage of the efficiencies that affords once the object has been set up.

This has been a wonder of mine for a long time in Cocoa.. do you have information on how precisely the immutable objects are more efficient? I've heard the claim before but never seen hard data either confirming or denying it.

-Evan Schoenberg
Lead Developer, Adium X
www.adiumx.com

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