Why is autorelease especially dangerous/expensive for iPhone applications?

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(cannot accept your own answer?)

Well, after all that, I did manage to find a reference from Apple Developer, added as a side-note near the bottom of the page:

iPhone OS Note: Because on iPhone OS
an application executes in a more
memory-constrained environment, the
use of autorelease pools is
discouraged in methods or blocks of
code (for example, loops) where an
application creates many objects.
Instead, you should explicitly release
objects whenever possible.

Still, this suggests using autorelease carefully, not avoiding it altogether.

(and now for my comment)

It sounds like there is a certain amount of overhead in maintaining the pool. I read this article which would lead me to probably avoid autorelease as much as possible because I prefer things to be consistent. If you have some memory under autorelease and other memory being totally manually managed it can be a bit more confusing.

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