Re: Drawing line on ImageIcon on panel after getting data

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>

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comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:44:14 GMT

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<7ab284edb9bd2@uwe>

Lew wrote:

If you break URLs the way Jeff did, people might
helpfully suggest things like StringBuffer's and the

or StringBuilder.

evils of String addition. Explain, calmly, that this
was a hack useful for making an SSCCE, as opposed
to 'well engineered code' (which is a different thing).

Jeff's URL:

mapImage = ImageIO.read(
new URL("http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/" +
"cia07/australia_sm_2007.gif"));

There is no String addition here. String compile-=time constants added
together become a single compile-time constant.
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/expressions.html#15.28>

Huhh.. Thanks for the clarification.

Also, the effect of String addition when it does occur is likely at least
partially mitigated by
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/expressions.html#15.18.1.2>

"An implementation may choose to perform conversion and concatenation in
one step to avoid creating and then discarding an intermediate String object.

To increase the performance of repeated string concatenation, a Java compiler
may use the StringBuffer class or a similar technique to reduce the number of

intermediate String objects that are created by evaluation of an expression.

For primitive types, an implementation may also optimize away the creation
of a wrapper object by converting directly from a primitive type to a string"

How very clever these Sun folks are. :-)
Assuming 'may' means 'does', of course. ;-)

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