Declare an object inside or outside a loop?

Question

Is there any performance penalty for the following code snippet?

for (int i=0; i         


        

Answer 1

I've got to admit I don't know java. But are these two equivalent? Are the object lifetimes the same? In the first example, I assume (not knowing java) that o will be eligible for garbage collection immediately the loop terminates.

But in the second example surely o won't be eligible for garbage collection until the outer scope (not shown) is exited?