Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Exercises

1. Add pool growing to nodepool.m.

2. Profile nodepool with Shark or Instruments. What’s the major bottleneck for -allocNode? What causes it? How would you fix it?

3. Find all the errors in Example 7.11, some of which are memory related. (I found nine.)

   Example 7.11. memerror.m

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