Re: general performance question

Clearly there's no sense at any time in creating an object and then setting
it to null

Sometimes I declare a variable that is to point to a resource and set
it to null so that the resource can be released in a wider scope. For
example:

Connection conn = null;
try {
conn = ConnectionFactory.getConnection();
doSomethingWithTheConnection(conn);
} finally {
if(conn != null) {
conn.close();
}
}

The best practice is to not fool with this kind of optimization unless you
have hard data from a profiler that it's actually a problem.

Whole heartedly agree. On occasion, some will throw out performance
as an excuse when backed into a corner or feel that they must give
some sort of explanation. If a performance hit is claimed it should
be backed up with some kind of measurement.

John
.

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