swift - Swift5 MacOS ImageResize memory issue

Question

I am new to Mac OS App Development with Swift. But I tried to make the simple ImageResizer app. I have to resize 50k images. After 10 hours, the memory has increased to nealy 120GB. I thought Swift also has Garbage collector. Why does it increase memory? I will show you my code.

for i in 0..<paths.count {
    let path = paths[i]

    if let image = NSImage(contentsOf: path) {
        ...

        if self.resize(image: image, size: size, to: URL(fileURLWithPath: resizedImagePath)) {
            print("Image saved to (resizedImagePath)")
            continue
        }
    }
}

func resize(image: NSImage, size: Int, to url: URL) -> Bool {
    if !image.isValid {
        print("invalid image")
        return false
    }

    guard let pixelsWide = image.representations.first?.pixelsWide else {
        return false
    }

    let factor: CGFloat = CGFloat(pixelsWide) / image.size.width

    var width: CGFloat = CGFloat(size)
    var height: CGFloat = CGFloat(size)
    if image.size.width > image.size.height {
        height = width * image.size.height / image.size.width
    } else {
        width = height * image.size.width / image.size.height
    }

    let rep = NSBitmapImageRep(bitmapDataPlanes: nil,
                               pixelsWide: Int(width),
                               pixelsHigh: Int(height),
                               bitsPerSample: 8,
                               samplesPerPixel: 4,
                               hasAlpha: true,
                               isPlanar: false,
                               colorSpaceName: .deviceRGB,
                               bytesPerRow: Int(width * 4),
                               bitsPerPixel: 32)
    rep?.size = NSSize(width: width / factor, height: height / factor)

    let ctx = NSGraphicsContext(bitmapImageRep: rep!)
    NSGraphicsContext.saveGraphicsState()
    NSGraphicsContext.current = ctx
    image.draw(in: NSMakeRect(0, 0, width / factor, height / factor))
    ctx?.flushGraphics()
    NSGraphicsContext.restoreGraphicsState()

    // Get NSData, and save it
    let data = rep?.representation(using: .png, properties: [:]) // properties as! [String : Any]) //
    do {
        try data?.write(to: url)
        return true
    }
    catch {
        return false
    }
}

Answer 1

You can put your whole code that it is inside your loop inside an autoreleasepool:

If you write a loop that creates many temporary objects. You may use an autorelease pool block inside the loop to dispose of those objects before the next iteration. Using an autorelease pool block in the loop helps to reduce the maximum memory footprint of the application.

for i in paths.indices {
    autoreleasepool {
        // all your image resizing code goes here
    }
}