How do you optimize the heap size usage of an application that has a lot (millions) of long-lived objects? (big cache, loading lots of records from a db) Use the right data type Avoid java.lang...

For a while at my company we've used a home-grown ObjectPool<T> implementation that provides blocking access to its contents. It's pretty straightforward: a Queue<T>, an object to lock ...

Recently i have been looking for a pool/allocator mechanism. Boost Pool seems to provide the solution, but there is still things, which it have not been able to deduce from the documentation. What ...

Our app creates alot of small objects while running. It mostly comes down to Autoreleased NSString and NSNumber objects. Since the app is designed to run "24/7" in the background heap fragmentation...

I was under the impression that an object pool is a design pattern used for managing a group of pre-allocated objects to which a client can request and be returned one of these objects. However, it...

What is the preferred way in scala for managing object pools? I need to create and delete large scale of objects single-threaded (no need for synchronization) . In c++ I've used array of static ob...

As far as I know the object pool is a creational pattern and the flyweight is a structural pattern, but actually I can´t see very much difference between the two. Could someone please explain to me...