Re: patch: tiny patch to correct stringbuffer size estimate

On 22/07/2003 17:36 Felipe Schnack wrote:
>   Looking at this case I don't think they are unnecessary. But I would
> like to just raise some questions for clarification
>  - The JDBC spec doesn't say these objects should be used in a
> thread-safe way? What I mean: your application/container shouldn't use a
> single PreparedStatement in multiple threads)... I think I saw this
> somewhere, but I might be wrong
>  - Maybe the unnecessary synch'ing is the one stringbuffer does
> internally?
>

Some databases might not even like sharing a connection between threads (I
know is is true for ODBC implemenations) so best practice would never see
synch'ing to be neccessary. OTOH, synchronization does not cause much of a
performance hit on modern JVMs (according to developer works).
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Paul Thomas
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