On Feb 5, 2009, at 4:39 PM, harry greenmonster wrote:
I'm a little confused as to why I have a problem. My understanding
is that 'inputString' (on the third line) is replaced by the
modified version of itself. I was expecting the memory footprint for
the app to reduce in size (if anything). Obviously I have the
concept fundamentally wrong in my head.
a pointer address when replaced by another address free's up the old
memory location it once pointed to, no?
No. Pointers are not freed until they are deallocated, either by
free() or -dealloc or the garbage collector's scanner (if GC is on) or
something similar. What's probably happening is the methods you are
calling are generating a bunch of temporary objects and autoreleasing
them. You can create a new pool and force it to pop at any time by
initializing a new NSAutoreleasePool prior to calling some methods,
and then calling -drain on the pool afterwards. It's a good idea to do
this in a loop in any case...
Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>
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