Style question (was Re: Test)

Wed Sep 16 11:46:00 GMT 1998

>> This is how I have been doing things for a couple years now, but I always
>> wonder what kind of performance hit I am taking by not moving the
>> "char c" declaration outside the loop and breaking the age old rule.
>>Huh? Declararions have no run-time cost on any Java implementation
>I know.

So, I've been worried about nothing all this time. I assumed that the nature
of Java is to do lots of stuff at runtime, so I assumed the declaration
would
not actually allocate anything until it was in scope and would continue to
reallocate itself each pass through the loop.