[Openmcl-devel] autorelease pools

[alex crain]

Could someone give me a short explanation on when I need to create an 
autorelease pool?

My understanding is that I get one for free when I boot up from AppKit 
but I need to
create one every time I create a new thread. I also should create one 
when I'm building
transient structures or they won't get released until the thread exits.

Where I'm having trouble is with the idea that all the NS objects have 
lisp wrappers
so I would intuitively think that when the lisp objects get GC'd they 
would clean up
the COCOA objects as well, but maybe not. Is lisp side memory 
management totally
separate from the COCOA side?