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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: optimsed HashMap
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On 11/26/2012 9:35 PM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
>
> Hm. According to Roedy himself
> (<http://www.mindprod.com/jgloss/interned.html#UNDERTHEHOOD>), the JVM
> uses a HashMap for intern()'d string lookup. So there may be no point in
> doing it after all.

     Here is the implementation of intern(), quoted in its
entirety from the Java 1.7 source:

	public native String intern();

Draw your own conclusions about its use of HashMap.

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Eric Sosman
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