Cocoa® Programming

Summary

Optimizing and memory-leak detection are large topics that are not completely covered in this appendix, but enough information is provided to meet the needs of most applications. The rules of thumb provided represent best practices that can save a lot of time and effort optimizing and debugging. Apple provides a collection of documents related to performance optimization and memory debugging at the following location: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/Performance/. Many of the documents referenced in this appendix are also available indirectly through that URL.

Appendix C, “Finding Third-Party Resources,” lists many additional resources available to help Cocoa programmers. A large and diverse community of Cocoa programmers ...