On 7 Jun 2013, at 11:44 AM, Jonathan Taylor <jonathan.tay...@glasgow.ac.uk> 
wrote:

> I do think it's interesting though (and a bit worrying) that the only way I 
> could pinpoint the actual problem was by reading through the relevant bits of 
> my code over and over - I wasn't able to glean any info from Instruments that 
> really narrowed things down, other than to confirm that there were definitely 
> image buffers accumulating somewhere.

This is the tragedy of the developer's existence. New tools make the day-to-day 
stuff much easier, but sometimes you must back off to 1970-era techniques, and 
audit your code. Tragedy never leaves us.

<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html>

-- 
Fritz Anderson
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