
15 Sep
2009
15 Sep
'09
5:13 p.m.
On 15/09/09 08:34, Mark Burton wrote:
That's very interesting, I didn't know that the Java runtime was as sophisticated as that. So, indeed the final was not actually doing anything useful apart from expressing my intention. No doubt, that's why Steve removed it.
Yes even although the advice to use final is frequently seen on the internet 'for performance' it is not really true. And if it were you would be better to make the class final anyway. Cheers, ..Steve