Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Is there any benefit of explicitly calling release?

[Chris M. <ch...@oc...>]

On 25 Jul 2008, at 16:56, Tim Perrett wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> Is there any benefit of explicitly calling release within RubyCocoa? I
> know the framework handles memory clean up automagically, but I was
> wondering what the benefits might be of doing it myself?
>

Things would get very crashy if you do that as I understand it.

> I have a little app that just seems to increase its memory footprint
> overtime it does an action; hence why I was wondering if there would
> be any benefit of being explicit with memory management?
>

Tried running it under instruments to see what's increasing?

> Cheers
>
> Tim

Cheers,

Chris