Hi Clase, Thanks for the helpful observations. Given this information I would be inclined to agree with your suggested approach.
Brian On Mar 12, 2018, at 11:53 AM, Claes Redestad <claes.redes...@oracle.com> wrote: > I expect the original user.dir property to be kept resident in memory by > System.properties > (thus no memory loss), and going from a boolean field to an Object reference > field on an > object that I expect to be a singleton(?) is unlikely to be a footprint > concern[1]. > > /Claes > > [1] Chances are the two approaches are footprint neutral on most archs due to > padding.
