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The Flyweight pattern allows a large number of similar objects to be reduced in number to a small set of shared objects. This has benefits in terms of memory overheads, object creation, object destruction etc. However, the state of the shared objects may need to be analysed to determine which parts of the state can be shared (and permanently stored internally to the object) and which parts of the state need to be externalized and provided by a client of the shared object each time it accesses that object.
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Hunt, J. (2013). Flyweight. In: Scala Design Patterns. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02192-8_24
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