Why not [aMutableString setString:@""];? Sandor Szatmari
On Jul 31, 2013, at 16:32, Vincent Habchi <vi...@macports.org> wrote: > Greg, > > thanks for diverting some of your time testing this. As someone already > commented, the results are somehow consistent with “common sense”, whatever > that means (cf. below). > >> ARC and non-ARC scores are the same within measurement noise, except for >> [NSMutableString string] where ARC can optimize the autoreleased return >> value so the test doesn't need to spin the autorelease pool. Note th > > The end of your message somehow got lost in the cyberspace. > > I thus suppose that to “clean” a NSMutableString, it is faster to recreate > another one rather than use -deleteCharactersInRange: with a range covering > the whole string. > > Thanks again so much to everybody for your enlightening advice. > > Vincent > > — > “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” A. > Einstein. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/admin.szatmari.net%40gmail.com > > This email sent to admin.szatmari....@gmail.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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com