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

When you autorelease, you're basically saying: "I don't need this any longer, but anyone else is free to pick it up (before the auto release pool is drained)". When you explicitly relase an object you're saying: "I don't need this any longer and unless anyone else has already said otherwise (acquired), it should be deallocated immediately."

Consequently, autorelease is not normally the wrong thing to. It is required when you want to pass objects back to the sender of a message without requiring the sender to take care of releasing the object.