局部变量的作用域应该总是尽可能的小。

在你的例子中，我假设str没有在while循环之外使用，否则你就不会问这个问题，因为在while循环内部声明它不是一个选项，因为它不会编译。

因此，由于str不在循环之外使用，因此str的最小作用域是在while循环内。

因此，答案强调str绝对应该在while循环中声明。没有如果，没有并且，没有但是。

The only case where this rule might be violated is if for some reason it is of vital importance that every clock cycle must be squeezed out of the code, in which case you might want to consider instantiating something in an outer scope and reusing it instead of re-instantiating it on every iteration of an inner scope. However, this does not apply to your example, due to the immutability of strings in java: a new instance of str will always be created in the beginning of your loop and it will have to be thrown away at the end of it, so there is no possibility to optimize there.

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In any case, the right way to do things is to write all your code properly, establish a performance requirement for your product, measure your final product against this requirement, and if it does not satisfy it, then go optimize things. And what usually ends up happening is that you find ways to provide some nice and formal algorithmic optimizations in just a couple of places which make our program meet its performance requirements instead of having to go all over your entire code base and tweak and hack things in order to squeeze clock cycles here and there.

我认为物体的大小也很重要。 在我的一个项目中，我们声明并初始化了一个大型二维数组，该数组使应用程序抛出内存不足异常。 我们将声明移出循环，并在每次迭代开始时清除数组。

在循环中声明将限制各自变量的范围。这完全取决于项目对变量范围的要求。

这个问题的一个解决方案是提供一个变量作用域来封装while循环:

{
  // all tmp loop variables here ....
  // ....
  String str;
  while(condition){
      str = calculateStr();
      .....
  }
}

当外部作用域结束时，它们将自动取消引用。

根据谷歌Android开发指南，变量范围应该是有限的。请查看此链接:

极限变量范围

这两个例子的结果是一样的。但是，第一个函数为你提供了在while循环之外使用str变量的方法;第二个则不然。