Efficiency of Java “Double Brace Initialization”?

Question

In Hidden Features of Java the top answer mentions Double Brace Initialization, with a very enticing syntax:

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Answer 1

Efficiency aside, I rarely find myself wishing for declarative collection creation outside of unit tests. I do believe that the double brace syntax is very readable.

Another way to achieve the declarative construction of lists specifically is to use Arrays.asList(T ...) like so:

List aList = Arrays.asList("vanilla", "strawberry", "chocolate");

The limitation of this approach is of course that you cannot control the specific type of list to be generated.