Re: dealloc strangeness in my custom view

FROM : Chris Ridd
DATE : Tue Jan 28 17:29:30 2003

On 28/1/03 3:48 pm, Josh Ferguson <<email_removed>> wrote:
> Sascha,
>
> I know this is true for C++ and I assume this is true in Objective-C.  Since
> this object doesn't need to be deallocated while the application is running,
> it's perfectly safe to allow it to be cleaned up when the application's memory
> is freed when the process is terminated.


Nod. It is probably quicker to exit the process instead of potentially
paging in every object you've got allocated, just to dealloc it :-)

Objective-C's -dealloc method is also not an exact equivalent of a C++
destructor, as it is only meant to be used to free up memory. Other sorts of
cleanup (removing temporary files etc) should be done by waiting for an
applicationWillTerminate notification.

Cheers,

Chris
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