Re: How to delay application quit?

FROM : James Hober
DATE : Tue Mar 25 17:26:47 2008

> When an application quits, it does _not_ properly release all of your
> objects.  Thus, their dealloc methods are generally not called.  This
> is a deliberate optimization since there's no point in manually
> cleaning up the process memory.  The kernel will completely eliminate
> the process address space (and do other cleanup) when the process
> exits.


Do you write the dealloc anyway?  Just wondering what others do. 
Personally I still write a dealloc method in a class for an object 
that I keep around for the life of the app.  Then I preface it with a 
self-amusing comment:

//actually this dealloc never gets called - the app just relinquishes 
all memory upon quitting.
//But just to keep things tidy...

I suppose this is utter superstition on my part.  Yet somehow I feel 
better that there are matching releases, etc. that never get called.

And of course, if the class were ever used not solely for a single 
object that lingers for the life of the app but for objects that come 
and go, then the proper memory management is in place.

What do you do?

James