Any consideration towards removing the char[] (or byte[]) indirection altogether? .NET for example stores the bytes inline with the instance.
Sent from my phone On Dec 2, 2014 4:59 PM, "Aleksey Shipilev" <aleksey.shipi...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As you may already know, we are looking into more memory efficient > representation for Strings: > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8054307 > > As part of preliminary performance work for this JEP, we have to collect > the empirical data on usual characteristics of Strings and char[]-s > normal applications have, as well as figure out the early estimates for > the improvements based on that data. What we have so far is written up > here: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/density/string-density-report.pdf > > We would appreciate if people who are interested in this JEP can provide > the additional data on their applications. It is double-interesting to > have the data for the applications that process String data outside > Latin1 plane. Our current data says these cases are rather rare. Please > read the current report draft, and try to process your own heap dumps > using the instructions in the Appendix. > > Thanks, > -Aleksey. > >
