On Jul 31, 2010, at 10:25 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:

> Isn't the purpose of dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier: of reusing 
> tableview's objects? I've used this in the past and it never failed me. The 
> documentation says "For performance reasons, a table view'€™s data source 
> should generally reuse UITableViewCell objects when it assigns cells to rows 
> in its tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: method". So, that's what I'm using. 
> Of course, I have 2 different cells for the 2 sections and I can't understand 
> why it doesn't work. Right now, I have 4 cells in section 2 but in the 
> future, I might have dozens of cells representing dozens of entries. I cannot 
> possibly create a different cell for each row, can I?


I think you misunderstand what cell reuse is in UIKit. Each row must be an 
individual instance of some cell type, but as you scroll through a table you 
might go through dozens or hundreds of rows that all share a specific type. In 
such a case you might have less than a dozen cell instances for those hundreds 
of rows, but you still need individual instances for each row.
--
David Duncan

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