In normal usage the private paintContext field of the Color object should
never be used. The graphics code treats colors specially and simply fills
the rectangles with the appropriate color rather than invoking its
PaintContext object.
But, if anyone ever calls the createContext() method of a
Browsing throught the source of the awt classes I
had the idea that it might be useful to cache colors, or at least instances of
ColorPaintContext, in order to reduce memory consumption. Colors are immutable,
therefore there should be no problem with concurrent usage of
objects.
Currently
