Re: 回复:Propose to remove support for CompactStrings off

Alan Bateman alan.bateman at oracle.com
Tue Nov 11 13:53:02 UTC 2025



On 10/11/2025 20:09, Stuart Marks wrote:
>
> Good points about what the JEP should say. I've updated it.
>
> Pretty much every article I've seen that describes Compact Strings 
> also mentions the -XX:-CompactStrings option, so the option seems 
> fairly well known. (In addition to it appearing in our documentation.) 
> However, we don't know how many people actually *use* the option. I 
> suspect there might be a long tail of conservative ("don't touch 
> anything!") folks who added it a long time ago out of an abundance of 
> caution and forgot about it, so it would be good to get the word out 
> as widely as possible.

I see Alex'sedits, the Motivation and Description are very clear now, at 
the right level for the expected reader.

-Alan


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