Measuring the time to create and destroy a simple object
- by portoalet
From Effective Java 2nd Edition Item 7: Avoid Finalizers
"Oh, and one more thing: there is a severe performance penalty for using finalizers. On my machine, the time to create and destroy a simple object is about 5.6 ns. Adding a finalizer increases the time to 2,400 ns. In other words, it is about 430 times slower to create and destroy objects…