Difference between 'new Integer(value)' and Integer.valueOf(value)
795672May 11 2007 — edited May 11 2007Hi,
Since being told a few months ago on this forum to use Integer.valueOf(value) over a new Integer, as its more memory efficient I have been doing this. Most often when getting values indexed with ints from a Hashtable.
I am just interested to know why this is a more preferable method, as valueOf returns an Integer object anyway.
Thanks.