On 21/05/2013 4:32 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
On 05/21/2013 07:07 AM, Mike Duigou wrote:
Since the char array is never modified it could use the String(char[],
boolean) constructor. This has advantages for cases such as logging
which may read the thread name very many times.
Couldn't we store the original string instead?
We can't** use a String instead of the char[] because of interaction
from the VM with JNI attached threads.
Do you mean we should store the String as well? That would add to the
memory footprint at a time when we are looking a reducing memory
footprint (ala class instance size reductions).
David
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** rather we won't. There is a lot of history here and using a String is
not impossible, but not worth the churn.
