On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:56 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Not sure I follow this. Why would an interface use extra memory? > I can see that it might add a bit more to the static size of a class, > but why would it add more to each instance of a class that uses it? >
It's not the interface itself. It's the fact that you have to have more objects loaded into memory when you use the interface-based approach. For example, if BCEL has some object that represents a class' metadata, then we'll have to put some "adapter" object in front of it that implements our metadata API interface and knows how to speak BCEL-speak to extract the information. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
