Nov 4, 2021
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Effective Java: Use Lazy Initialization Judiciously
Lazy initialization is the pattern of putting off the creation of an object or process until it is needed. The idea behind this pattern is that you may never need the object and thus you will have saved the initialization costs. The main reason that lazy initialization is used is as an optimization. The other use that lazy initialization has is breaking tricky circular dependencies in your code.
