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consider this from "Android" documentation :

A somewhat more radical idea is to slice up multidimensional arrays into parallel single one-dimension arrays:

An array of ints is a much better than an array of Integers, but this also generalizes to the fact that two parallel arrays of ints are also a lot more efficient than an array of (int,int) objects. The same goes for any combination of primitive types.
If you need to implement a container that stores tuples of (Foo,Bar) objects, try to remember that two parallel Foo[] and Bar[] arrays are generally much better than a single array of custom (Foo,Bar) objects. (The exception to this, of course, is when you're designing an API for other code to access; in those cases, it's usually better to trade correct API design for a small hit in speed. But in your own internal code, you should try and be as efficient as possible.)



I got this from here : Android docs

Could you please help me understanding that 2 single arrays is better than one 2d array ??
 
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A "2D array" in Java is always actually a 1D array of 1D arrays -- i.e., an int[10][2] is one array of length 10 that holds ten arrays of 2 ints each; this is total of 11 objects. On the other hand, you could hold the same ints in two 1D int[10]s, which would be only 2 objects. For a tiny VM where object count really mattered -- and for some Android devices this is the case according to the author of the document you link to -- then this would make the 2 1D arrays a better choice.

But for general Java development, it's terrible advice, as is much of what's in that document. In general, don't use that advice except to squeeze additional performance out of troublesome Android applications.
 
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Ok... Now thats easy to understand.. Thanks for that Sherif


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But for general Java development, it's terrible advice, as is much of what's in that document. In general, don't use that advice except to squeeze additional performance out of troublesome Android applications.



Why is that bad as of Java development? Isn't it true that creating objects hurt the time and space in Java too ?? Do you say that because its a bad programming practice, it doesn't look good and structured and so on?
 
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Despite what it says in that article, creating small, short-lived objects in a modern JVM is very close to free. Java's allocator/garbage collector combo is many times faster than C++'s new/delete, for example. Although those tips might speed up a regular Java program by 1% or less, and might cause it to use a few percent less memory, you'll have done so at the expense of creating code that's much harder to understand -- which means it's more likely to contain bugs, which will be hard to find since the code is hard to understand...
 
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Okkk.... So, Android uses dalvik virtual machine, instead of jvm and that is the reason for all those things.. May be that 1% matters a lot on mobile devices with so less resources to spend..
So you say its best to follow what that document has to say about performance on android devices or any device with lesser resources...

Thanks Ernest

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