On Mar 11, 2008, at 17:56, mmalc crawford wrote:
Moreover, a problem with using the "factory method approach" is that they return autoreleased objects. If you have a particular need to be concerned about performance (as you might especially in a resource-constrained environment), it is generally a Good Thing to avoid autorelease and instead use alloc/ release directly.
There's no reason why it can't be named "create..." and return a retained object, if that's what's needed in any given situation.
Perhaps I shouldn't have used the expression "factory method", since I didn't mean it had to be done exactly the way a frameworks factory method might.
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