Re: Declaring outside a loop: speed? memory?

Philipp wrote:
Just wondering, is there a speed or memory difference between the two following codes?

Funny you should ask, because it was just mentioned on Planet Classpath http://planet.classpath.org/

Local Variables in Java
http://rmathew.blogspot.com/2007/01/local-variables-in-java.html

In short, there is no difference. The JVM specification requires them to be the same, and the same bytecode is generated.

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