Hi Xiaobin, Xiaobin Lu said the following on 08/11/10 07:42:
Would anyone please let me know why we convert the incoming argument of Thread.setName() to a char array? Why can't we just store the incoming argument to the name since String is immutable anyways?
I know I've wondered the same thing in the past, and I can't recall the exact details of what I determined at the time. The only thing I presently recall is that the name is accessed directly from VM code (internally and things like JVMTI) - hence a raw char array is easier to access than a String object.
David
