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Autorelease isn't a silver bullet for Obj-C memory management. There are a number of cases in which you would NOT want to autorelease objects - tight loops, for example.

If you're already in the habit of autoreleasing everything you +alloc, why not just release it when you're done with it instead?

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because like I said it's easy to forget when to do that. Example

UIView* view = [[UIView alloc] init]; ...do a bunch of stuff [view release] <-- you have to remember this

vs. UIView* view = [[[UIView alloc] init] autorelease];

Of course I know about the cases where we have tight loops,w hich is why i said 99 of the time.

Personally I only use autorelease when I create an object I'm not responsible for. For example, if I create a view somewhere for another object to utilize. I also like knowing that as soon as I'm done with an object that it gets killed and the system can reclaim the memory.

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