On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 12:28:33 UTC, bearophile wrote:
I am back.
This study regards how "final" is used in Java programs, and
generally how immutability is used and is useful:
http://whiley.org/2012/09/30/profiling-field-initialisation-in-java/
...
Reminds me of C# 'readonly'
http://m
On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 03:49 +0200, Jesse Phillips wrote:
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> So, you are saying that these examples are exhibiting the same
> problems because they are based on the same design?
>
> I don't see how that would invalidate the results. That is, I
> don't see the relevance here.
My comment relate
On Wednesday, 3 October 2012 at 08:17:49 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
If we were to study software now in the way Richard Helm, Erich
Gamma et
al. did in the early 1990s would we find Proxy, Façade,
Builder, etc. of
course we would since the feedback loop of people knowing about
them
causes them t
On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 00:37 -0400, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> On 10/01/2012 09:39 PM, Bernard Helyer wrote:
> >> Our results from 14 Java applications
> >
> > Only 14? So it's a useless statistic.
>
> No, that isn't true. How many language decisions in D are based on an
> analysis of even 5 program
On 10/01/2012 09:39 PM, Bernard Helyer wrote:
Our results from 14 Java applications
Only 14? So it's a useless statistic.
No, that isn't true. How many language decisions in D are based on an
analysis of even 5 programs, let alone 14? What if you were testing to
see how fair a coin was, and
On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 12:28:33 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Our results from 14 Java applications indicates that 72-82% of
fields are stationary<
programmers are sometimes forced (or voluntarily choose) to
initialise fields late (i.e. after the constructor has
completed). This prevents such
Interesting, I vaguely remember that Eiffel has a 'once' keyword,
but I'm not sure if it could help here.
Our results from 14 Java applications
Only 14? So it's a useless statistic. Good to know.
The rest seemed interesting.
On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 12:28:33 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Some quotations from the paper:
Unkel and Lam developed the term "stationary field" to describe
fields which are never observed to change, that is, all writes
precede all reads [for such field in all instances of the
class]<
Our r
I am back.
This study regards how "final" is used in Java programs, and
generally how immutability is used and is useful:
http://whiley.org/2012/09/30/profiling-field-initialisation-in-java/
Slides:
http://www.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~djp/files/RV2012.ppt
Paper, "Pro ling Field Initialisation in Java",
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