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Soulstorm

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Original poster
Feb 1, 2005
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First of all, let's clarify that I'm talking about ObjC prior to version 2.0. So, there is no garbage collection.

In a foundation tool (command line objc program), what is the difference between instantiating an object using alloc-init, and using a class method like "[NSSTring stringWithString]" in terms of memory management?

And the same question applies for Cocoa applications.

Is there any reference I can read up on those things?
 

kpua

macrumors 6502
Jul 25, 2006
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Under GC, there no longer is a difference between the convenience allocators and the regular allocators—except that they are still convenient.

With GC, -release, -autorelease, and -retain are just empty methods that take no effect.
 
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