How do you make a deep copy of an object?

A safe way is to serialize the object, then deserialize. This ensures everything is a brand new reference.

Here’s an article about how to do this efficiently.

Caveats: It’s possible for classes to override serialization such that new instances are not created, e.g. for singletons. Also this of course doesn’t work if your classes aren’t Serializable.

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