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mbenjaminsmith on April 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: My first six months of programming: from man-roden...

Or just release it. If you're sure it's autoreleased then retain/release it. If you're not sure, just set it to autorelease before you retain/release it.

othermaciej on April 14, 2011 [–]

retain/release on an autoreleased object won't make it get destroyed any faster. You still have to wait for the event loop to cycle (or push/pop your own autorelease pool).

mbenjaminsmith on April 16, 2011 | [–]

That's correct. That's something I read, have repeated but never bothered to actually test.

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