Comments on snippet: 'Singleton Pattern' Snipplr comments feed https://snipplr.com/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:23:55 +0000 iroybot said on 30/Sep/2009 https://snipplr.com/view/11647/singleton-pattern <p>@adix I do this for performance reasons. This has several benefits for form validation, etc. pp even though you would end up with the same instance on every pageload, saving the object in a session lets you access the exact same instance throughout the whole website. What are the downsides?</p> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:55:28 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/11647/singleton-pattern iroybot said on 30/Sep/2009 https://snipplr.com/view/11647/singleton-pattern <p>@adix I do this for performance reasons. This has several benefits for form validation, etc. pp even though you would end up with the same instance on every pageload, saving the object in a session lets you access the exact same instance throughout the whole website. What are the downsides?</p> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:55:39 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/11647/singleton-pattern