Why Is Printing “B” Dramatically Slower Than Printing “#”?
I generated two matrices of 1000 x 1000: First Matrix: O and #. Second Matrix: O and B. Using the ...
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Why Is Char[] Preferred Over String for Passwords?
In Swing, the password field has a getPassword() (returns char[]) method instead of the usual getText() (returns String) method. Similarly, ...
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Creating a Memory Leak With Java
I just had an interview, and I was asked to create a memory leak with Java. Needless to say I ...
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Read/convert an InputStream to a String
If you have java.io.InputStream object, how should you process that object and produce a String? Suppose I have an InputStream ...
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Differences Between HashMap and Hashtable?
What are the differences between a HashMap and a Hashtable in Java? Which is more efficient for non-threaded applications? dmanxiii ...
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Avoiding “!= Null” Statements in Java?
I work with Java all day long. The most used idiom (code snippet) I’m programming in Java, is to test ...
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Is Java “Pass-by-Reference” or “Pass-by-Value”?
I always thought Java was pass-by-reference; however I’ve seen a couple of blog posts (for example, this blog) that claim ...
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Why Is Subtracting These Two Times (In 1927) Giving a Strange Result?
If I run the following program, which parses two date strings referencing times one second apart and compares them: public ...
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Java += operator
Until today I thought that for example: i += j; is just a shortcut for: i = i + j; ...
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Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
Here is a piece of C++ code that seems very peculiar. For some strange reason, sorting the data miraculously makes ...
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