On 15 Dec 08, at 14:54, John Michael Zorko wrote:
Imagine this:
static NSMutableDictionary *lookup = [NSMutableDictionary new];
... now imagine a situation where I need to clear that dictionary.
If I call
[lookup release];
lookup = [NSMutableDictionary new];
... it will obviously be faster than coding a for loop and removing
each object in the dictionary, but since it was declared as static,
which is safer?
Neither. All that "static" means on a global variable is that the
symbol isn't visible from other source files. It has no bearing
whatsoever on the contents of that variable.
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