At 03:13 27/1/01 +0100, Paulo Gaspar wrote:
>Bruce Eckel on his book "Thinking in Java" states that a simple method call
>(no parameters) takes 5.9 units of time while a synchronized method call
>takes
>570. OTOH, object creation takes 980 which makes it an even worse
>alternative.
Depends on the JVM - later JVMs from sun actually deal better with creation
of small short-lived objects.
Cheers,
Pete
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