String Deduplication in JEP192

Thomas Schatzl thomas.schatzl at oracle.com
Fri Feb 28 23:44:14 UTC 2014


Hi,

  just a small comment:

On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 00:08 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> not sure what the proper process is, but I notice that Dalibor
> retweeted a JEP link to JEP192 - String Deduplication in G1.
> 
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/192
> 
> The most obvious thing I noticed is, that the JEP goes into detail to
> describe how a String object is constructed out of hashcode and char
> array. But it somehow totally misses offset+count fields (substrings).

These fields were removed sometime 2012
(https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6924259).

Hth,
  Thomas




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