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Design patterns

Flyweight

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Description :

Type :  St  (Structural)
Intent : Use sharing to support large numbers of fine-grained objects efficiently.
Applicability : The Flyweight pattern's effectiveness depends heavily on how and where it's used. Apply the Flyweight pattern when all of the following are true :
- An application uses a large number of objects.
- Storage costs are high because of the sheer quantity of objects.
- Most object state can be made extrinsic.
- Many groups of objects may be replaced by relatively few shared objects once extrinsic state is removed.
- The application doesn't depend on object identity. Since flyweight objects may be shared, identity tests will return true for conceptually distinct objects.

Pattern's participants :

Problems :

  1. 1. Limiter le nombre d'objets en mémoire
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