Non-synchronized StringBuffer

Sun Nov 25 15:32:00 GMT 2001

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> It isn't as easy as it sounds. For one thing, a reference is passed
> to any methods invoked on it, and these methods might save `this' (for
> that matter, a constructor might save `this' somewhere).

Bleh, I forgot about that. At times like this I keep wishing that
Gosling had been more of a Haskell fan... AFAIK escape analysis should
be easy in pure functional languages...
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