On Aug 22, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Thomas Wetmore <t...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Pre-allocation means to allocate space before you need it, which would be at > init time. > But there is no need to pre-allocate -- the first allocation can be postponed > until the first item is put in the container or characters in the string. This is nit-picking (and btw, that optimization doesn’t sound very useful to me.) The point is that using -initWithCapacity: is a good optimization because it reduces, and hopefully eliminates, re-allocation of the backing store. —Jens _______________________________________________ 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