On 02/06/2011 05:43 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2011-02-04 21:44, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:Java's substring() does not copy the text, at least in the official JDK implementation. Unfortunately, it doesn't specify this behavior as part of the String API.But, I assume, it will allocate a new instance of String even though the content point to the same data?
Yes, but small objects in Java are very fast to allocate and garbage collect.
