> -----Original Message----- > From: Finn Bock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I can see performance slow down well before 100.000 unique string are > interned. > <snip /> > > I've attached another demo program that shows that intern'ing is slower > than doing memory sharing with a Hashtable. This programs creates 13520 > unique strings and does 9 subsequent lookup of the same strings. >
say... a little trick I just stumbled upon. try changing the two for loops to : for(int i= cnt; --i >= cnt; ) take a look at the result. FREAKY! how much are optimizations like this taken into consideration elsewhere in the code? Cheers, Andreas > regards, > finn >
