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cocoa - const vs static NSStrings in Objective-C

These lines are both in the implementation file above the @implementation declaration.

NSString * const aVar = @"aVarStringValue";

static NSString *aVar = @"aVarStringValue";

As far as I understand, the second static is allocated once only within the lifetime of the application and this fact contributes to performance.

But does this mean it is essentially a memory leak seeing as that block of memory will never be released?

And does the first const declaration get allocated every time it is accessed in contrast?

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static keyword in Objective-C (and C/C++) indicates the visibility of the variable. A static variable (not in a method) may only be accessed within that particular .m file. A static local variable on the other hand, gets allocated only once.

const on the other hand, indicates that the reference may not be modified and/or reassigned; and is orthogonal on how it can be created (compilers may optimize consts though).

It's worth mentioning that NSString literals get initialized and never get destroyed in the life of application. They are allocated in a read-only part of the memory.


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