Re: NSTimer memory management
Re: NSTimer memory management
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Jeff Johnson
<email@hidden> wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2010, at 6:13 PM, email@hidden wrote:
>
>> In this particular case, though, I might just as well get rid of the
>> timer altogether and go for NSObject's
>> performSelector:afterDelay:/cancelSelector: instead. Jeff's
>> enlightening (and frightening!) discussion about implicit retain
>> cycles makes me want to stay as far away from NSTimers as possible.
>
> Have you read the documentation for -performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: ? "This method sets up a timer to perform the aSelector message on the current thread’s run loop." "This method retains the receiver and the anArgument parameter until after the selector is performed." ;-)
At least I can't be held responsible when the lights go out. But I
never had a problem with -performSelector: so I guess they know what
they are doing under the hood.
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