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  1. I found the answer to my own question. On page 405 of Stephen G. Kochan’s Programming in Objective-C, he writes, “Space for constant strings is allocated differently in memory than other objects. They have no reference counting mechanism because they can never be released.” An instance of NSConstantString is created.

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