Re: NSDate dateWithNaturalLanguageString goes BOOM! after being called 100, 000+ times
Re: NSDate dateWithNaturalLanguageString goes BOOM! after being called 100, 000+ times
- Subject: Re: NSDate dateWithNaturalLanguageString goes BOOM! after being called 100, 000+ times
- From: Justin Spahr-Summers <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:55:15 -0600
You should find an alternative to + dateWithNaturalLanguageString:
that's not a convenience constructor, and then call - release when
you're through with it.
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:32:38 -0800, Kane Dijkman <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
> I am working on a project where I have to load up a bunch of
> information categorized by dates. The dates are in a natural language
> format "mm/dd/yyyy" and need to be turned into NSDate objects so I can
> work with them.
>
> The number of items that are being loaded is rather large. Easily Half
> a million plus.
>
> When I run the program after about 100,000
> NSDate * thisDate = [NSDate dateWithNaturalLanguageString:theDate];
> the app goes boom and I get an EXC_BAD_ACCESS error.
>
> I thought this might have been from bad memory management (it still
> might be, as I am *very* new to cocoa development) so I created a
> simple test app with a button that run this function.
>
> @implementation test
>
> - (IBAction)run:(id)sender
> {
> int i;
> for (i=0; i<500000; i++)
> {
> NSDate * thisDate = [NSDate
> dateWithNaturalLanguageString:@"12/14/2004"];
> NSLog(@"%d", i);
> }
> }
> @end
>
> After running through about 100,000 of these (give or take) I get the
> exact same error.
>
> My questions are:
>
> Given the error is an EXC_BAD_ACCESS error am I doing something wrong
> memory management wise?
>
> If not, any idea what is causing this?
>
> And more to the point... any ideas on how I can fix this? Or how I can
> work around it?
>
> Thanks Much,
> Kane
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