On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 21:02:29 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
>(What does Java use internally?) > >-- gil Currently Java does use UTF-16, but Java 9 will get a little smarter about that, storing ins 1 byte/character ISO8859-1/Latin-1 where it can. http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/254 The G1 garbage collector (which I believe will be the new default) will also get string deduplication: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/192 Since those are internal JVM things, if those make will it into the IBM JVM I of course don't know. Scott Chapman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN