Does every thread need its own autorelease pool?

Question

Does every thread have to have its own pool? I am writing an iPhone app which uses threads. If I do not put a pool on a thread it complains abut leaking.

What I wan

Answer 1

If you don't need a runloop associated with your thread, you'll need to create an autorelease pool manually. I would suggest that for transferring ownership of an object to another thread, you make it explicit rather than trying to rely on autorelease; have some sort of "take ownership" method called on a longer-lived thread that retains it.