Curly Braces in Objective-c

Question

Note: My question is based after checking this and the answers to it.

In some bigger methods, there are pieces of code that you only want to be alive f

Answer 1

Based on the above example, is this a valid way of lowering the memory footprint of an application?

No. They're not even related. Neither are they related to @autoreleasepool - this usage of curly braces is the plain C way of opening a new scope.