Re: [Xmlgraphics-fop Wiki] Update of "PropertyHandling/PropertyCache" by AndreasDelmelle

On May 11, 2008, at 15:06, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
> <snip />
> To my knowledge an object is always created in the heap, never on the
> stack. The PropertyCache is efficient not because it avoids to move
> instances to the heap, but because references to newly created  
> instances
> are immediately released, which makes them immediate candidates for
> garbage collection; instead of having numerous physically different
> instances in memory, all of them being logically equivalent.
> Does that make sense?

Right! I'm confusing the stack with the heap space reserved for the  
young, short-lived objects... I'll correct in a moment.

Thanks for the review!


Cheers

Andreas