On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 16:35, J.Pietschmann wrote: > Darn, racall the last post. > > John Austin wrote: > > Note that storing the property name and value refs supplied > > to the Property constructor will use 45,620 strings. If the > > Property implementation employs canonical mapping to ensure > > that only one copy of each unique string is stored, then just > > over 2,300 strings are required. > > Have a look at String.intern()
Bruce Eckel said not to trust it for some reason. I have 2nd Ed of "Thinking in Java" and the online one is 3rd Ed so I haven't found chapter and verse for this yet. The only 'bad thing' said about it that I could find quickly was: http://mindprod.com/jgloss/gotchas.html The other good thing we can do is .... compare these string refs for equality. > J.Pietschmann -- John Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
