On 12/15/09 11:46 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas said: >«Mac OS X implements a highly-tuned, threadsafe allocation library, >providing standard implementations of the malloc,calloc, realloc, and >free routines, among others. If you are allocating memory using older >routines such as NewPtr or NewHandle, you should change your code to use >malloc instead. The end result is the same since most legacy routines >are now wrappers for malloc anyway.» > >from http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Performance/ >Conceptual/ManagingMemory/Articles/MemoryAlloc.html
I would think one place that using NewHandle() is still the best idea is when an API requires a handle. This is the case for many QuickTime APIs, and the OP did mention using QuickTime. Another would be the Alias Manager. -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
