Understanding Object Pooling in Microsoft .NET
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by Joydip Kanjilal
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Why is an Object Pool required?

The biggest advantage of using Object Pooling is that it minimizes the consumption of memory and the system's resources by recycling and re-using objects as and when it is needed and serving the request for new objects from the pool of ready-to-be-used objects. The objects that the application is done with (the objects are no longer needed) are sent back to the pool rather than destroying them from the memory. According to MSDN, "Once an application is up and running, memory utilization is affected by the number and size of objects the system requires. Object pooling reduces the number of allocations, and therefore the number of garbage collections, required by an application. Pooling is quite simple: an object is reused instead of allowing it to be reclaimed by the garbage collector. Objects are stored in some type of list or array called the pool, and handed out to the client on request. This is especially useful when an instance of an object is repeatedly used, or if the object has an expensive initialization aspect to its construction such that it's better to reuse an existing instance than to dispose of an existing one and to create a completely new one from scratch."


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