Interning own classes like strings for speed and size?

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
> I believe what you are looking for is (some variant of) the singleton
> pattern:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern

Actually, no. What I want is the flyweight pattern instead:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyweight_pattern

...but thank you for the approach of looking for a suitable pattern!

Cheers!

Uli