[android-developers] Re: Wierd memory leak

Well, I would hope that the Java threadsafe classes are still
threadsafe. But essentially none of the UI is, and the structure of
the system greatly discourages sharing data between threads.

On Oct 8, 5:00 am, Daniel Drozdzewski <daniel.drozdzew...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:40 PM, DanH <danhi...@ieee.org> wrote:
> > Right.  The main difference is that StringBuffer is threadsafe, and
> > nothing else in Android is threadsafe, so little point in using
> > StringBuffer.
>
> Well,
> there are few places, where Java (Android) are thread safe (Vector,
> Stack, few classes in javax.nio.* and quite few classes in
> java.util.concurrent.*)
> If String modification is happening by multiple actors (user generated
> events, network) then it makes sense using StringBuffer.
>
> > (That said, the performance edge of StringBuilder over StringBuffer is
> > unlikely to be noticed.)
>
> True

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