[android-developers] Re: Question on Shelves example

I wouldn't obfuscate my code like that. If this were an inner loop
with a million iterations, maybe, but it would have to backed up by
hard numbers.

On Oct 22, 6:47 am, Romain Guy <romain...@android.com> wrote:
> This was useful before the JIT was added in Android 2.2. It's a bit
> faster, though in this particular case it doesn't really matter, I did
> it out of habit :)
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> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Prakash Iyer <thei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The reference article on Painless Threading pointed me to the Shelves
> > example as a place to understand AsyncTask. So I was reading that example.
> > One question popped into my head while I was going thru ShelvesActivity. The
> > onPause code calls stopBooksUpdater. That code snippet is as follows,
> > private void stopBooksUpdater() {
> >         final BooksUpdater booksUpdater = mBooksUpdater;
> >         booksUpdater.clear();
> >         booksUpdater.stop();
> > }
> > What's the reason for a local final variable which is manipulated as opposed
> > to the member variable? This happens in one more place but in others the
> > member variable is directly accessed, e.g. in onResume.
> > Thanks!
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