SOFTWARE ARCHITECT AND INDEPENDENT TECHNICAL TRAINER
Motivation The problem I would like address affects the performance in case this::method reference is passed to another method (especially within a long running loop), hence it is important to be aware and avoid this situation. The problem This arises when a lambda or a method reference which captures this reference (e.g. this::method) is passed to…
In the current article I propose to analyze what happens and how it behaves, from a performance standpoint, in case of using the Optional API feature added in JDK 8 versus the classical approach relying on explicit null checks. In regards to this, I decided to conduct an experiment based on 3 linked classes (e.g….