On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 04:39, Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> Jonathan Gilbert wrote:
> > Once a string is in the pool, it can NEVER be removed
> > (until the AppDomain is disposed).
>
> In Java the string intern pool uses weak references. I don't know about
> .NET, but I'd hope it does the same.
I believe it doesn't. From [1]:
Interning happens two ways in the CLR.
...
2) It happens automatically, when you load an assembly. All the
string literals in the assembly are internâed. This is
expensive and â in retrospect â may have been a mistake. In the
future we might consider allowing individual assemblies to
opt-in or opt-out....
- Jon
[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2003/04/22/51371.aspx
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