Background: I (jumping onto the bandwagon and), starting to learn about the development of the iPhone / iPad and Objective-C. I have a lot of experience in web development, and most of my programs run in javascript (without libraries), Ruby and PHP.
Question: I will learn about memory allocation and release in Objective-C, and I find it quite a challenge for a layer on top of the actual run farking. I am trying to get an idea of the applications that are and what will happen to a bad memory driven program.
A) Are applications usually released without memory leaks? Is this a possible goal, or do people more realistically just excise the worst criminals and is this normal?
B) If I create a NSStringview for the title, say, and forget to free it, is it really a problem only if I re-create this line again? I imagine what I am doing, creating the overhead of the memory needed to store this line, so it is probably quite confused (a few bytes?) However, if I have a loop cycle in the game, which “leaks” int every cycle or something that would quickly overwhelm the application. Are these assumptions correct?
Sorry if this is not a crossroads of the wiki community, I'm just trying to figure out how to think about memory and how carefully I need to be. Any jokes or App-apps presented in the app would be great to hear as well.
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