This was posted in 2009. I think that some of the arguments are no longer valid, e.g. Java 1.7 now uses escape analysis to eliminate heap allocations where poss

This was posted in 2009. I think that some of the arguments are no longer valid, e.g. Java 1.7 now uses escape analysis to eliminate heap allocations where possible: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/10/06/jdk7-do-escape-analysis-default http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/10/06/jdk7-d...