Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] Avoiding Bloat

[Boris Bokowski <Boris_Bokowski@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Moffatt wrote on 10/15/2008 09:36:56 AM:
> As far as Strings go Wikipedia indicates that java already does some
> form of this through a technique called 'interning', why should we
> try to compete?

Because there is never an easy answer ;-) ... interned strings use that especially precious "perm space" memory on some VMs. See for example: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=741223

Boris