Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:20:10 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 8 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:20:11 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5HSAJfqnDjjLFxXZ6WBWEw"; logging-data="1439"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+/us8EqTm+eC/JR2Twf2tyMfurUjkZsxk=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:3myKZyL1l6bl9lxRvnoMp1qRz9Q= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5749 On 6/28/2011 12:34 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > If, for your purposes, minimal memory use is very important, you may > want to consider other languages with other trade-offs. Or rolling your own, via the CharSequence interface, for example.