Re: Memory Leak in NSString.m

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, February 22, 2001, at 10:05 AM, Helge Hess wrote:

> Frederic De Jaeger wrote: 
> > Ok, I thought about a performance reason but I didn't think  the 
> > gain could be so important. Usually, you don't need to parse a big 
> > property list in the inner loops of your code. It may only appends in the 
> > startup of a prog. Does it really slow down the launch of an 
> > application ? 
>  
> Eg in SKYRiX we parse a database model stored in a plist at startup. 
> This plist is about 200K and startup (and more important: memory 
> consumption) is significantly reduced by using a fast plist parser 
> without -autorelease. 
> (indeed I have modified the libFoundation parser in the same way). 
>  
> Large plists are not unusual for EOF like applications. Eg they are also 
> useful for importing/exporting tables. 

Yep ... and I use property-lists a lot, and even have them as a backup format
to restore from in case of database corruption ... in which case I'm parsing
hundreds of megabytes of property-lists (most individual lists a few K or tens
of K).