On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 13:48, Nathan Xu <nathan.qingyang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the null-check tip! I appreciate that. > > As a matter of fact, NPE issue still bothers us a lot. This recent PR from > the community is another validation: > https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/pull/3499How to systematically > combat NPE is a good topic and still highly relevant. Maybe we can talk about > it later. > > I didn't anticipate we should abandon the 'lazy initialization' pattern > totally (even when we limited its scope to ArrayList constructed by default > constructor). My point is to raise the awareness that since JDK7, ArrayList > has a lazy-initialization feature built-in already. We still pay the cost to > create an empty ArrayList (without allocating 10 elements in advance), but > the overhead might be worthwhile for it leads to a more elegant and > maintainable codebase.
Noted, thanks. But I still recommend to keep this pattern as the overhead has been proven to be very significant in some cases. We'll just need to be careful with any change, but that's always the case :) _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list -- hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org To unsubscribe send an email to hibernate-dev-le...@lists.jboss.org %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s
