Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 03/06/2013 13:44, Stefan Bodewig a écrit : > >> My personal preference would be Iterable as well as the consumer may >> iterate over the return value multiple times without copying stuff >> around, but I may be missing something. > > I like Iterable for the ease of use in a foreach loop. But there is a > risk it uses more memory than necessary. The pros for an Iterator is to > be able to stream the data without holding the whole structure in > memory. I don't know if that makes a real difference for your use case. > An Iterable than can only be iterated once is another solution.
An Iterable returns only an Iterator, no need to keep anything in memory except of an (anonymous) Iterable instance. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
