On 2019-03-15 19:06, Peter Levart wrote:
On 3/15/19 5:14 PM, Claes Redestad wrote:
Hi Peter,
thanks for reviewing!
Interning arbitrary attribute names might have some unfortunate side-
effects,
You mean if the number of different names would get larger and larger on
a long-running JVM, the cache would grow without bounds?
Yes.
I noticed that the Name constructor:
public Name(String name) {
this.hashCode = hash(name);
this.name = name.intern();
}
...interns the String name. Do interned strings have a weak cache or are
they kept for the entire life of JVM?
I think you can think of them as only weakly referenced by the VM, so
yes, they will be GCd if no-one keeps them alive.
/Claes
