When building applications, you often come across objects that are quite expensive to create. In some scenarios, the cost of creating new objects is high enough to impact application performance. Here ...

Pooling resources (also called object pooling) among multiple clients is a technique used to promote object reuse and to reduce the overhead of creating new resources, resulting in better performance ...

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