On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:48 AM, troels knak-nielsen<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Isn't that one of the benefits of using a singleton? > You can reuse the same object in other ways than through a global symbol. Aren't singleton classes preferred over global variables? -Ed
