On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Michael Irey<[email protected]> wrote: > That's a performance boost of 7X using a singleton versus not using a > singleton.
You're conflating two unrelated concepts. The performance difference that you observe is due to the difference between instantiating a new object per iteration vs. reusing the same. You can reuse the same object in other ways than through a global symbol. -- troels
