In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua's fifth Item: Avoid creating unnecessary objects.

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Show Notes * Effective Java (2nd Edition) - Joshua Bloch

Avoid creating unnecessary objects

• Google says - Avoiding creating unnecessary objects too
• Episode 10 with Michael Bailey - String optimization

Snippet to demonstrate AutoBoxing problems

``` // sum of all positive values Long sum = 0L; for (long i=0; i Integer.MAX_VALUE; i++) { sum+=i; }

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