[jira] [Updated] (JENA-237) Quad is mutable

["Stephen Allen (Updated) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Stephen Allen updated JENA-237:
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    Attachment: JENA-237 - Immutable Quad.patch
    
> Quad is mutable
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>                 Key: JENA-237
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-237
>             Project: Apache Jena
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ARQ
>            Reporter: Stephen Allen
>            Assignee: Stephen Allen
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: JENA-237 - Immutable Quad.patch
>
>
> I notice that Quad is a mutable object, specifically it lazily caches the call of asTriple().  It seems that we can eliminate this caching and make Quad an immutable object.
> Benefits:
>   - It's really cheap to create a new Triple object on each call to asTriple()
>   - Reduce the memory footprint of Quad objects by eliminating at least a pointer, and potentially a pointer and a whole Triple object
>   - Makes Quad thread-safe
> I didn't just make the change because I didn't know if there was a reason for the current situation.  Attached patch.

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