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What is the impact of excessive object allocation in tight loops?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Excessive allocations increase heap pressure, GC-like ARC overhead, and CPU usage.
Deep explanation
Even though ARC is not garbage collection, retain/release operations still cost CPU cycles. Frequent allocation in loops increases memory churn and cache misses, degrading performance.
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