It is not clear that wildcard imports slow even compile time speed the first time a JSP is loaded. There is no reason to expect that it would have a measurable impact on javac compile speed.
This is more a style and coding standards question. One downside to implicit imports is that as code evolves classes have long lists of obsolete import statements left over... This is a horrible maintenance blight on legacy Java code in the cases I've seen with 20 or 30 (and sometimes 50 or more) import statements that could be boiled down to 4 or 5 wildcard import statements. Paul Copeland, JOT Object Technologies http://www.jotobjects.com > > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:48:51 -0500 > From: Mark Galbreath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Class Loader Performance Question > > Yeah, I knew this, but in spite of me forwarding numerous assertions from > this list and the struts list, the tech lead of our dev group (I'm doing a > consulting gig here) insists that explicit imports speed up the runtime. > The only time I could see this being true is the first time a JSP is called > that declares scores of imports. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chen, Gin > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:35 AM > > According to an email I received from Peter Haggar (author of Practical > Java: Programming Language Guide). The use of implicit imports have no > effect on the performance as it is only used during compile time. It seemed, > according to the email (which i unfortunately lost), that the use of > implicit vs explicit is mainly a programmer preference. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
