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I'm trying to show the higher ups that our codebase is not using objects correctly. We're making copies of immutable objects all over the place and its driving me mad. However, I have no 'proof' (i.e.

OpenJDK plan would improve support for archived Java heap objects in class data sharing, aligning with the Project Leyden effort to improve startup performance. Efforts to improve Java program startup ...

When you create a new object in Java,<br><br>aClass a = new aClass();<br><br>memory is dynamically allocated on the process's heap to store the object instance. A reference to this object is created ...