[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Interesting. This reminds me that quite some time ago I tried to get the text decoration property flyweighted (still in the maintenance code), there are only 8 possible values. Unfortunately, it failed to pay off, apparently there is no advantage in using a pointer compared to three booleans.
I'm sure using the flyweight pattern on font properties could reduce the memory footprint, the property bundle is large enough, and documents rarely use more than two dozen or so of combinations (e.g. two fonts, one a single variant (normal) and size, the other three variants (normal, bold, italic), the normal variant in 4 sizes, for a total of 7 different font property bundles). BorderAndPadding might be another case, for example by using a static immutable instance for the "empty" case. J.Pietschmann
