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Cocos2D iPhone - will this save memory?

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When you create a sprite on cocos using a texture you allocate memory.





Something like:







CCTexture2D *textureProxy = [[CCTexture2D alloc] initWithImage:image];

CCSprite *proxy1 = [CCSprite spriteWithTexture:textureProxy];







My question is: suppose I want several sprites using the same texture and I do







CCSprite *proxy1 = [CCSprite spriteWithTexture:textureProxy];

CCSprite *proxy2 = [CCSprite spriteWithTexture:textureProxy];

CCSprite *proxy3 = [CCSprite spriteWithTexture:textureProxy];

CCSprite *proxy4 = [CCSprite spriteWithTexture:textureProxy];

CCSprite *proxy5 = [CCSprite spriteWithTexture:textureProxy];







Will I use 5 times more memory? (or in other words, will the texture be duplicated to each proxy or is the sprite just a "empty box" that references the original texture?





If the later is the answer, then the memory usage for similar sprites are not that huge, right?





thanks.


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  1. Tips For AllFebruary 9, 2012 at 1:23 AM

    Sprites keep only references to textureProxy. Even if you create each sprite with spriteWithFile:, file names are cached in CCTextureCache.

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  2. Tips For AllFebruary 9, 2012 at 1:23 AM

    In cocos Different memories are allocated for texture and variables. So if u keep on creating just variables using same texture won't add up texture memory multiple times. And CCSprite objects are autoreleased objects.

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