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Summary A developer questioned whether the private List<String> field in CircularNavigatorString—populated via List.copyOf()—was being mutated in memory. The concern was whether such mutation would generate garbage, requiring garbage collection (GC). The answer is no: the list is immutable, the index update is a primitive integer mutation on the heap, and no GC overhead occurs beyond … Read more

Summary The core question is whether to pre-serialize a cleaned data table into a compiled Android APK resource to avoid startup parsing overhead. This approach is technically possible but architecturally unsound. It conflates the roles of build tooling and runtime execution. While it solves the symptom (slow startup), it introduces severe brittleness regarding serialization IDs, … Read more

Summary In unit testing with Python’s unittest.mock, capturing the return value of a method requires returning the value from the mock to the caller (the code under test), while also intercepting the call for assertions. The confusion with wraps often stems from expecting the wrapper function to automatically capture the return value of the mocked … Read more

Summary Key Issue: A PostgreSQL database restored live while Django services were running caused severe server-wide performance degradation that persisted even after stopping services. Core Finding: The root cause was not database corruption, but an OS-level disk I/O bottleneck exacerbated by PostgreSQL’s checkpointing and vacuuming processes triggered by the restore. The “innocent” Django project slowed … Read more