Timeline for Should we avoid object creation in Java?
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| Dec 29, 2014 at 20:49 | comment | added | supercat | ...much faster than references to two distinct-but-identical strings of that length. | |
| Dec 29, 2014 at 20:49 | comment | added | supercat | Even with things like network connection, what's important is not to maintain the GC-allocated objects associated with connections, but rather to maintain the set of connections which exist outside the GC-managed world. There are times when pooling objects themselves can be helpful; most of those stem from cases where a pair of references to the same object may be semantically equivalent to a pair of references to identical-but-distinct objects, but nonetheless have some advantages. For example, two references to the same fifty-thousand-character string may be checked for equality... | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 17:23 | history | answered | Anthony Ananich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |