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- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- To: xml-dev-digest@ic.ac.uk
- Date: 17 Jan 2000 21:17:53 -0500
Tyler Baker <tyler@infinet.com> writes:
> As you can see an identity test is done right off the bat so if you make a call like this:
>
> if (foo.equals("x")) {
>
> }
>
> And foo == "x", then your only additional overhead to a straight identity test is the
> dynamic method invocation of String.equals().
Only if the strings are equal -- if you're in a long switch statement,
most of them won't be equal, and the overhead will be much more than
the function call.
All the best,
David
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