On Aug 10, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote: > That said, is the part about objects escaping zones really true for *NS*Zone? > It's true for malloc zones, for sure, but the docs for NSRecycleZone say: > > Frees zone after adding any of its pointers still in use to the default zone. > (This strategy prevents retained objects from being inadvertently destroyed.)
Right -- I was talking about the historical, generic, use of NSZone. > > which seems to imply otherwise. > > You *are* just talking about *NS*Zone, right? malloc zones are very useful > and I definitely don't want to see those go away (I'm thinking of a certain > million-plus node data structure we maintain that we'd have to go calling > free() a million or more times to release...) Right. Just NSZone. Malloc zones aren't going anywhere. b.bum _______________________________________________ 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
