On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Patrick M. Rutkowski wrote: > Is it common in either Cocoa or UIKit to have an autorelease run > happen only when the user does something?
> I'm in a situation where I believe the autorelease run is happening > only when I push a bush or otherwise fiddled with a UI item; might > that be the case, or am I confused? I think you may be confused here. There's no such thing as an 'autorelease run'. Autoreleased objects are collected in autorelease pools. The main autorelease pool in an application with a UI is drained every so often (every time the application goes through its main event loop). You shouldn't have to worry about when autoreleased objects get released: the only thing you need to know is whether or not you're responsible for the release of an object. This is explained at length in the Memory Management Programming Guide: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/MemoryMgmt/MemoryMgmt.html Also, check the documentation for NSAutoreleasePool. Hope this helps, Hank > > -Patrick > > P.S. > Is there perhaps a way to have it logged to the console whenever an > autorelease run happens? I'm assuming you're referring to the draining of an autorelease pool again. Since the main autorelease pool is drained at the end of the event loop, I guess you could attach an observer to the main run loop (search the docs for runloop observer), but there may be better ways. Why would you want to know this? > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/hank.list%40runbox.com > > This email sent to hank.l...@runbox.com > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
