What do you mean by Autorelease pool - Drain Vs Release

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In a reference-counted environment, drain does perform the same operations as release, so the two are in that sense equivalent. To emphasise, this means you do not leak a pool if you use drain rather than release. In a garbage-collected environment, release is a no-op. Thus it has no effect. drain, on the other hand, contains a hint to the collector that it should "collect if needed". Thus in a garbage-collected environment, using drain helps the system balance collection sweeps.

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