| title | Dirty Flag | ||
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| category | Behavioral | ||
| language | en | ||
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- IsDirty pattern
To avoid expensive re-acquisition of resources. The resources retain their identity, are kept in some fast-access storage, and are re-used to avoid having to acquire them again.
Use the Dirty Flag pattern when
- Repetitious acquisition, initialization, and release of the same resource causes unnecessary performance overhead.