Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· andri

About Reusing UITableViewCell

If you know what you're doing, you don't always have to reuse UITableViewCell (which is via

- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier 

and

- (id)dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:(NSString*)identifier 

methods).

The thing is, if you want to create UI something like this, reusing table cells can cause scrolling performance to be quite slow.
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In term of memory usage, the difference between reusing and not reusing table cells is about 2 - 3 MB, which something I can tolerate in the name of fast scrolling performance.

It's your call :)