Autorelease iPhone

Question

Coming up towards the end of developing an iPhone application and I\'m wondering just how bad is it to use autorelease when developing for the iphone. I\'m faced with some fairl

Answer 1

Using release instead of autorelease can improve memory usage in tight spots (which is good on the iPhone), but it's not going to help at all with crashing if you're not following the retain / release rules. I would read a few tutorials on memory management in Obj-C if you're still a little hazy on what you should be doing, and then go after those crashes using the debugger and crash reports to find out where you're over releasing objects. This and this are two good places to start.