Sub-Classing NSTextStorage Causes Significant Memory Issues

Question

I have a custom UITextView that takes advantage of Apple's TextKit by defining a custom NSTextStorage class, however, when I use my subclass for the custom text view's, text storage (as implemented below) and try opening any file greater than 20.0KB, the app crashes due to memory leakage: "Message from debugger: Terminated due to memory issue".

Oddly enough, if I replace my custom BMTextStorage with just a standard one, NSTextStorage, the text loads instantly without any memory leakage and uses < 30MB of RAM. What is causing this?

TextView.swift

class TextView : UITextView {

    required init(frame: CGRect) {

        // If I replace the following line with simply 
        // "let textStorage = NSTextStorage()"
        // I can open any file of any size and not have a memory leak
        // issue, using only about 20-30MB of RAM. If I ran this code
        // as is, it can open most files less than 20KB but will 
        // crash otherwise.
        let textStorage = BMTextStorage() 

        let layoutManager = NSLayoutManager()

        layoutManager.allowsNonContiguousLayout = true

        let textContainer = NSTextContainer(size: CGSizeMake(.max, .max))

        textContainer.widthTracksTextView = true
        textContainer.heightTracksTextView = true
        textContainer.exclusionPaths = [UIBezierPath(rect: CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 40.0, .max))]

        layoutManager.addTextContainer(textContainer)
        textStorage.addLayoutManager(layoutManager)

        super.init(frame: frame, textContainer: textContainer)

        textStorage.delegate = self
        layoutManager.delegate = self

    }

}

BMTextStorage.swift

typealias PropertyList = [String : AnyObject]

class BMTextStorage : NSTextStorage {

    override var string: String {
        return storage.string
    }

    private var storage = NSMutableAttributedString()

    override func attributesAtIndex(location: Int, effectiveRange range: NSRangePointer) -> PropertyList {
        return storage.attributesAtIndex(location, effectiveRange: range)
    }

    override func replaceCharactersInRange(range: NSRange, withString str: String) {
        storage.replaceCharactersInRange(range, withString: str)
        edited([.EditedAttributes, .EditedCharacters], range: range, changeInLength: str.length - range.length)
    }

    override func setAttributes(attrs: PropertyList?, range: NSRange) {
        storage.setAttributes(attrs, range: range)
        edited([.EditedAttributes], range: range, changeInLength: 0)
    }

    override func processEditing() {
        super.processEditing()
    }

 }

Answer 1

Wow.... weird, it got fixed when I changed the type of storage to NSTextStorage....

typealias PropertyList = [String : AnyObject]

class BMTextStorage : NSTextStorage {

    overrride var string: String {
        return storage.string
    }

    private var storage = NSTextStorage()

    override func attributesAtIndex(location: Int, effectiveRange range: NSRangePointer) -> PropertyList {
        return storage.attributesAtIndex(location, effectiveRange: range)
    }

    override func replaceCharactersInRange(range: NSRange, withString str: String) {
        storage.replaceCharactersInRange(range, withString: str)
        edited([.EditedAttributes, .EditedCharacters], range: range, changeInLength: str.length - range.length)
    }

    override func setAttributes(attrs: PropertyList?, range: NSRange) {
        storage.setAttributes(attrs, range: range)
        edited([.EditedAttributes], range: range, changeInLength: 0)
    }

    override func processEditing() {
        super.processEditing()
    }

 }