On Jan 19, 2010, at 9:21 PM, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:01 PM, mmalc Crawford <mmalc_li...@me.com> wrote:
>>> No, you should just *retain* the result of dictionaryWithCapacity.
>>>
>> No, you shouldn't.
>>
>> If you're writing an init method and want to assign the dictionary to an
>> instance variable, you should use alloc/init.
>
> Why?
The autorelease pool is convenient and in some cases necessary, but it does
come at some cost. It has some overhead in terms of time and memory, plus it
tends to increase the peak memory usage of your program. (Over time, assuming
you've got all your memory management correct, a program's memory usage will
come out the same, but autoreleased objects accumulate over the lifetime of the
current pool, causing spiky memory usage.)
In general, it's always good to be aware of such trade-offs and make judgments
with them in mind. In a highly constrained environment like the iPhone, the
recommendation is to avoid the autorelease pool in the simple cases where it's
easy to do so. Like, the difference between the following:
someIvar = [[NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity:5] retain];
and
someIvar = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithCapacity:5];
is not hard on the developer, but keeps usage of the autorelease pool to a
minimum.
Regards,
Ken
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