Re: refactoring

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.nospam>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:24:31 -0400
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Michael Jung wrote:

 - Garbage overhead.
This may turn out significant.


Lew writes:

Individual values would have to be collected; there's virtually no difference
in collection of a container for those values.


Michael Jung wrote:

No they don't. Imagine a method rerun passing values to a static result very often.


When did the result start having to be "static"? I understand neither what
you mean by the term in this context, nor how that influences GC overhead.

Even if not, the overhead for another object may be 1:2 (I.e. two ints
vs. two ints in a container.


How are you getting this ratio?

The cost of garbage collection is proportionate to the number of live objects,
not to the number being collected.

Weigh against the bug risk induced by separation of variables that belong
together.


You would not need to have them separated logically or on code basis, never
more than a line apart.


Separated is separated. "Close" is only good for horseshoes.

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Lew

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