Re: casting Object[] to String[] - why not?
Karl Uppiano wrote:
"Lew" <lew@lewscanon.com> wrote in message
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On Apr 17, 5:53 am, Marteno Rodia <marteno_ro...@o2.pl> wrote:
I appreciate all your suggestions, however,
return tokenList.toArray(new String[tokenList.size()]) ;
is the shortest and the most comfortable one.
Moreove, it works!
It's not the shortest, actually.
return tokenList.toArray(new String [0])
is shorter.
BTW, putting "List" in the name of the list is somewhat bad practice.
I am curious; I tend to use the form:
tokens.toArray(new String[tokens.size()]);
thinking that passing in an appropriately sized array would eliminate
the need to reallocate memory for the array, as it seems would be
necessary when sending in a zero length array. Am I wasting my time (and
possibly memory and processor cycles, when I thought I was saving both)?
For most lists, I don't think it matters much. It should not take much
time to allocate a zero element array that immediately becomes unreachable.
If the List is subject to access from multiple threads, the zero length
array approach works provided toArray is synchronized. The the size()
based form needs additional synchronization to ensure there is no change
in the size of the List between the size call and the toArray call.
Patricia
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