On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 17:53, J.Pietschmann wrote: > John Austin wrote: > > I noticed this artcle on Developer Works: > > > > Java theory and practice: Garbage collection and performance > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp01274.html > > > > Something to read on Thursday. > > Nice read, however, they don't talk about constructors. There
Isn't allocation the only unseen part of construction ? Everything else is visible in the code and surely a few assignments are never expensive. Any other expensive operations will stand out in measurements of code execution. > are still arguments for reusing objects and for trying to > replace objects with a bunch of primitive values. > (BTW a nice try selling yet-to-be-written optimizations > regarding inlining...) Moore's law is another optimization we sell in advance all the time. -- John Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
