prototype-pattern

Prototype pattern Prototype results in a cloned object which is different from the original object. The state of the original is the same as the clone, at the time of cloning. Thereafter each object may undergo state change. You can think of this as something similar photocopying the original and then modifying the photocopy at … Read more

The prototype pattern has some benefits, for example: It eliminates the (potentially expensive) overhead of initializing an object It simplifies and can optimize the use case where multiple objects of the same type will have mostly the same data For example, say your program uses objects that are created from data parsed from mostley unchanging … Read more