Re: array initilization and memory usage

Frank van Schie wrote:
ge0rge wrote:
Incorrect.
Bar bar[500]; allocates 500 references on the stack - no big space requirement ... but each new Bar() will allocate a Bar object on the heap and the space requirement for a Bar instance.

That's... what he said, barring syntax errors. Except he doesn't know the difference between 400 and 500.

Probably a typo. The 4 and the 5 key are right next to each other.

Don't forget that a reference is NOT free. I think we already figured out here on this list that most JVMs implement a reference as 8 bytes. So Bar bar[500]; with no objects at all is still 4008 bytes for most JVMs.

My suggestion: use a collection.
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