Flyweight Pattern - History

History

According to a textbook Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, the flyweight pattern was first coined and extensively explored by Paul Calder and Mark Linton in 1990 to efficiently handle glyph information in a WYSIWYG document editor, although similar techniques were already used in other systems, e.g., an application framework by Weinand et al. (1988).

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