> functionality. In some cases strings are compared with string literals > using ==. I can give a list if anyone thinks he or she will have use for > it.
This is a speed optimization. All Strings compared by this function were "interned" before. This is done for e.g. all "field" names in Lucene. On constructing a Term, the filed name is "interned" by field.intern(). After that, the returned sting object is a reference to a unique representation in a string pool maintained by Java. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#intern() Uwe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
