Subject: Re: [PATCH JGIT] Method invokes inefficient Number constructor; use static valueOf instead

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:15:50 -0700

"Sohn, Matthias" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Using new Integer(int) is guaranteed to always result in a new object
> whereas Integer.valueOf(int) allows caching of values
> to be done by the compiler, class library, or JVM. Using of cached
> values avoids object allocation and the code will be faster.

NAK.

This thread came up about 5 weeks ago.  Please see my reply here:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/113738/focus=113785

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Shawn.