022: Effective Java for Android developers : Item 5

In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua's fifth Item: Avoid creating unnecessary objects.

Stay tuned for more items from our "Effective Java for Android developers" Fragment series.

Show Notes

• Effective Java (2nd Edition) - Joshua Bloch

Avoid creating unnecessary objects

• Google says - Avoiding creating unnecessary objects too
• Episode 10 with Michael Bailey - String optimization

Snippet to demonstrate AutoBoxing problems

// sum of all positive values
Long sum = 0L;
for (long i=0; i Integer.MAX_VALUE; i++) {
  sum+=i;
}

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