Lexicon

Repeated Expensive Setup

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Design Patterns Core

Record: lexicon:repeated-expensive-setup

Canonical: Lexicon

A defect in which each new object repeats a costly setup that copying a prepared instance would avoid.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Constructor-Valid State and before Cartesian Inheritance Explosion.

Category

  • Creational Patterns

Violates

  • Prototype Pattern

Linked from

  • Creational Patterns