Re: Immediate memory release
Re: Immediate memory release
- Subject: Re: Immediate memory release
- From: "Clark Cox" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 07:16:03 -0700
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Paul Bailey <email@hidden> wrote:
> The class documentation for NSAutoreleasePool notes that release is a no-op
> on garbage-collected environments, and one should use drain to give the
> garbage collector a hint to do its job (that's my limited understanding).
> It notes that drains behaves the same as release in a memory managed
> environment, so it's safe to use in both circumstances.
Joar wasn't disputing the use of -drain, he was asking about the use
of +new over +alloc/-init. AFAIK, there is no official documentation
that recommends the former over the latter.
>
> Basically, if there's a chance your code might be garbage-collected, use
> drain.
>
> As for new, not sure...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:00 AM, j o a r <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Apr 30, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
> >
> > I also changed the pool calls to the current recommended names: +new and
> > > -drain.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Can you point me to where the official documentation recommends the use of
> > +new over +alloc-init?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > j o a r
> >
> >
> >
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