Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Memory management and broken link on website

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

 
On Wednesday, October 25, 2006, at 01:06AM, Bob Ippolito <bo...@re...> wrote:


>
>> Second question: Am I correct in understanding that the objects in
>> the now-deleted pool remain valid so long as I still have a reference
>> to them (say, in a python object) and that the memory for the other
>> objects in the pool is properly freed?
>
>That is correct. The Python proxy around an Objective-C object
>guarantees a positive retain count. That doesn't really have anything
>to do with autorelease pools.

An autorelease pool is nothing more than a mechanism to decrease the reference count "later" instead of immediately, it won't cause deallocation unless the autoreleased reference happened to be the last reference to an object.

Ronald