On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote:
> http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/shiftintojava/page1.html > > "Upon first exposure to the Java programming language, some C > programmers believe that classes are too heavyweight to replace > structs under some circumstances, but this is not the case. Degenerate > classes consisting solely of data fields are nearly equivalent to C > structs in every respect." > > If you choose not to believe Mr. Bloch, that is your decision. > > http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/performance.html "Object creation is never free. A generational GC with per-thread allocation pools for temporary objects can make allocation cheaper, but allocating memory is always more expensive than not allocating memory. If you allocate objects in a user interface loop, you will force a periodic garbage collection, creating little "hiccups" in the user experience. The concurrent collector introduced in Gingerbread helps, but unnecessary work should always be avoided." For what is worth, I don't choose not to believe Mr. Bloch, I was just wondering if in Android were better choices for classes as structs, as I know my knowledge of both Java and Android is limited. That's the reason I asked here after searching the web with no results (again, maybe my results weren't good enough to get the answers I was looking for). Thanks, though, for the link, as it seems interesting. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
