http://www.redrooffs.com/2006/06/24/nsstring-memory-allocation/ Interaction design, wine, Cocoa, Vancouver, and other observations Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:14:38 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://www.redrooffs.com/2006/06/24/nsstring-memory-allocation/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Chris Ryan Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:18:45 +0000 http://www.redrooffs.com/2006/06/24/nsstring-memory-allocation/#comment-4 I found the answer to my own question. On page 405 of Stephen G. Kochan's <a href="http://www.samspublishing.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0672325861&redir=1&rl=1" rel="nofollow"><em>Programming in Objective-C</em></a>, he writes, "Space for constant strings is allocated differently in memory than other objects. They have no reference counting mechanism because they can never be released." An instance of <code>NSConstantString</code> is created. I found the answer to my own question. On page 405 of Stephen G. Kochan’s Programming in Objective-C, he writes, “Space for constant strings is allocated differently in memory than other objects. They have no reference counting mechanism because they can never be released.” An instance of NSConstantString is created.

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