What is the cost of using autorelease in Cocoa?

Question

Most of Apples documentation seems to avoid using autoreleased objects especially when creating gui views, but I want to know what the cost of using autoreleased objects is?

Answer 1

Others have answered whether you should autorelease, but when you must autorelease, drain early and drain often: http://www.mikeash.com/?page=pyblog/autorelease-is-fast.html