During the course of learning the new API; I undestood that the new java.util.CopyOnWriteArrayList creates a new copy of the underlying array for writing thereby disposing off synchronization. My question is how does this affect memory management in a situation where there are many concurrent writes to be done; I guess it is going to create this many copies of the arrays and have them stored in memory; this I think is akin to having too many objects in a
servlet session. Please correct me if I am wrong.