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Design Patterns in .NET 6: Reusable Approaches in C# and F# for Object-Oriented Software Design
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Design Patterns in .NET 6: Reusable Approaches in C# and F# for Object-Oriented Software Design

by Dmitri Nesteruk
August 2022
Intermediate to advanced
469 pages
8h 13m
English
Apress
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D. NesterukDesign Patterns in .NET 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8245-8_12

12. Flyweight

Dmitri Nesteruk1  
(1)
St. Petersburg, c.St-Petersburg, Russia
 

A flyweight (also sometimes called a token or a cookie) is a temporary component that acts as a “smart reference” to something. Typically, flyweights are used in situations where you have a very large number of very similar objects and you want to minimize the amount of memory that is dedicated to storing all those values.

Let’s take a look at some scenarios where this pattern becomes relevant.

User Names

Imagine a massively multiplayer online game. I bet you 1 bitcoin there’s more than one user called John ...

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