Re: Heatbug.java continued..

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "MP" == Miles Parker <address@hidden> writes:

MP> bestLocation = getHostCell().findMaximumWithin(maximizeFor, 1, true);

This is a good thing, I'm think, for a teaching example, but I wonder
to what extent that non-professional Java programmers (e.g. academic
researchers) ever feel a performance cost to implicit allocation like that
(and the cost of automatic reclamation of it).  

Java is among the first languages that can be used for intensive
number crunching, which is widespread, that also has garbage collection.

I mean, it's easy to see that it is cleaner to not use explict
call-by-reference objects, but it's not immediate evident to new users
that there is implicit allocation that has a indirect garbage collection cost.
(I do think the cost is worth paying almost all of the time, I just
can't bring myself to sweep it under the rug and pretend it isn't there,
in general.)

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