Exploring Instruments: Leaks
The Leaks instrument, and by association the Allocations instrument, gives the developer a tremendous amount of insight into finding and resolving memory-related issues. It can assist in finding overuse of memory, leaks, retain cycles, and other memory-related issues. With the popularization of Automatic Reference Counting (ARC), the Leaks and Allocation tools are slowly falling from their previous grace; however, they can still offer tremendous benefits to the developer.
The Leaks instrument can be launched from the Instrument Selector window in the same fashion as the Time Profiler. When Leaks is launched, it will automatically also include the Allocations instrument, both of which can be run on the device and the ...
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