> Well, there is a lot of Scala code out there doing exactly that. I talked about specific examples that I don't even know of. I don't know Scala enough to kn

> Well, there is a lot of Scala code out there doing exactly that. I talked about specific examples that I don't even know of. I don't know Scala enough to know whether non-destructive updates are the default. Are they? What about the core libraries? I agree your proposition in fixed width font does not hold. I was merely asserting this one: Program P produces lots of short-lived objects + Dalvik sucks (or is tuned for long lived-objects) ------------------------------------------------- Program P have to be slow