iphone开发中loadView和viewDidLoad的区别

在网上查到这样的下面一段解释：

loadView is the method in UIViewController that will actually load up the view and assign it to the "view" property. This is also the location that a subclass of UIViewController would override if you wanted to programatically set up the "view" property. viewDidLoad is the method that is called once the view has been loaded. This is called after loadView is called. It is a place where you can override and insert code that does further initial setup of the view once it has been loaded

然后又查了下查了下官方文档，内容如下：

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viewDidLoad 
Called after the controller’s view is loaded into memory. 

- (void)viewDidLoad 
Discussion 
This method is called after the view controller has loaded its associated views into memory. This method is called regardless of whether the views were stored in a nib file or created programmatically in the loadView method. This method is most commonly used to perform additional initialization steps on views that are loaded from nib files. 

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loadView 
Creates the view that the controller manages. 

- (void)loadView 
Discussion 
You should never call this method directly. The view controller calls this method when the view property is requested but is currently nil. If you create your views manually, you must override this method and use it to create your views. If you use Interface Builder to create your views and initialize the view controller—that is, you initialize the view using the initWithNibName:bundle: method, set the nibName and nibBundle properties directly, or create both your views and view controller in Interface Builder—then you must not override this method. 

The default implementation of this method looks for valid nib information and uses that information to load the associated nib file. If no nib information is specified, the default implementation creates a plain UIView object and makes it the main view. 

If you override this method in order to create your views manually, you should do so and assign the root view of your hierarchy to the view property. (The views you create should be unique instances and should not be shared with any other view controller object.) Your custom implementation of this method should not call super. 

If you want to perform any additional initialization of your views, do so in the viewDidLoad method. In iOS 3.0 and later, you should also override the viewDidUnload method to release any references to the view or its contents.