Le 22 sept. 2010 à 14:46, Oleg Krupnov a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> I have a NSMutableArray and need to add a number of elements to it,
> and their quantity I know in advance (in fact, they come from another
> array).
> 
> I think that if I add them one-by-one in a loop, the array will have
> to reallocate its internal memory frequently. This seems inefficient.
> 
> I'd like to avoid this and instead have the array to re-allocate its
> memory only once to increment the capacity by the known value.
> 
> I could use "arrayWithCapacity" creation method, but the array already
> exists. It seems that the -addObjectsFromArray: method may be what I
> need, but the docs do not make it clear if it's internally optimized
> to do only a single memory re-allocation. Have anyone tested this?


Is this part of your code a bottleneck ? If not, use the simplest way 
(-addObjectsFromArray:) and don't bother with premature optimization.

-- Jean-Daniel




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