Re: Problem with NSAutoreleasePool in GNUstep

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 12:00 PM, ramana rao wrote:

>  
> JP,
>  
>     It seeme there is a problem with GNUstep NSAutorelease pools, 
> unless I am very much mistaken

The perceived problem is really an artifact of the simplistic test used.
In real systems you -
a. wouldn't put huge numbers of objects in a single autorelease pool
b. have lots of swap space, so don't care about the peak memory size

Where there is a genuine problem with this behavior (ie your machine is 
very short
of swap space) you can cure it by making better use of your autorelease 
pools
(creating and destroying pools more frequently) or using the +freeCache 
method
(see the GNUstep NSAutoreleasePool documentation).