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From: Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Substring changes (JDK 1.7)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:48:42 -0600
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On 1/10/2013 10:15 AM, markspace wrote:
> On 1/10/2013 5:38 AM, Jan Burse wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>>  > Recent versions of the JDK do not reuse the backing char[].
>>  > The reason is that the offset and length fields have been
>>  > removed from String to save memory.
>>
>> Did this affect some of your code?
>>
>> Bye
>
>
> Wrong on both counts.  Where did you read this nonsense?
>
> <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7-gate/jdk/file/tip/src/share/classes/java/lang/String.java>

<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8-gate/jdk/rev/2c773daa825d> 
suggests differently...


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