However outside the package only the public constructor of Term can be called, which does the field.intern(). I donīt know how expensive the call to intern() really is. Maybe my worries are irrelevant.
String.intern() is just a hash table lookup in most cases, and Java hash tables are pretty fast. The constructor and object allocation will easily dominate this.
Doug
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