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case strings

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	case strings
Date	2012-06-03 11:40 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
Message-ID	<robns7d4t1tn9g0q8i1g0rph1g36cnk7ko@4ax.com> (permalink)

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has anyone benchmarked or decompiled to see how the new case string
labels are compiled.  Are they faster than setting up a HashMap to
classify the strings?  In theory they could be since the literal
values are known at compile time, where HashMap does not have that
advantage.

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case strings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-03 11:40 -0700
  Re: case strings Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-03 13:37 -0700
    Re: case strings markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-03 19:19 -0700
    Re: case strings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-04 07:53 -0700
      Re: case strings Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-05 23:53 -0700
  Re: case strings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-04 07:57 -0700
    Re: case strings "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-04 08:18 -0700
    Re: case strings Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-06-04 11:30 -0400
      Re: case strings Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-06 00:15 -0700

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