Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r33146 - in /libs/gui/trunk: Source/ TextConverters/RTF/ Tools/

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 29 May 2011, at 06:42, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:


> 
> Alternatively, perhaps we should deprecate the use of the 
> CREATE_AUTORELEASE_POOL macro and change its meaning so that it's always 
> equivalent to 'NSAutoreleasePool X = [NSAutoreleasePool new]' ?
> This would make sense to support mixed GC and non-GC code (I mean code 
> intended to work when linked with other code in either world) as we'd then 
> always have the pool in existence.
> One of the purposes of the macros was to avoid the overheads of 
> creating/destroying and sending messages to autorelease pools when running in 
> GC mode, but that's a consideration from many years ago when processors were 
> slower ...

Just for clarity ... this (phasing out CREATE_AUTORELEASE_POOL and 
RECREATE_AUTORELEASE_POOL) would be my preferred option.