Autorelease Pool
Manual memory management requires some thought and ceremony. It is not so much of a problem with long-lasting instances, but managing temporary local objects, especially when you need to create more than one, is a tedious job. It also hurts code readability. While Delphi allows automatic memory management for classes that implement interfaces, using ARC is not always feasible. If you have to deal with preexisting classes that don't support ARC, you will have to deal with manual memory management. Reference counting also adds some overhead, and using reference counting in your own classes is not always a viable approach. When performance is not paramount, simpler and cleaner code without try...finally blocks would be nice to have. Life always finds a way and various ARC-based smart pointer and similar lifetime management wrapper implementations have started to appear in the wild. One common place where constructing many object instances can be found is unit testing. While lifeti
