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Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7?

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From Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7?
Date Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:06:17 +0100
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On 20.11.2014 13:24, Silvio wrote:

> I am in the habit of writing lexers and parsers and I still curse the
> day they decided to do this.

If you want sharing semantics you can still do that by explicitly 
implementing this.  I know, you have to do it which costs.

> It was just a cheap way to save memory on
> the String class because it allowed them to ditch the offset/length
> members.

It's not only that.  I am pretty sure this also has to do with how 
garbage collectors evolved.  Nowadays it is usually much cheaper to just 
create a bunch of short lived objects than trying to devise 
sophisticated schemes to save memory by reusing objects (which then will 
stay around for longer).  And we all know that the longer an object 
lives the higher the GC cost on it because it has to be revisited over 
and over again.  I am pretty confident that engineers at Sun / Oracle 
did sufficient research to warrant the change.  As with every change 
some suffer.  But I assume for the majority it is an improvement or at 
least not noticeable.

Kind regards

	robert

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Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-10-22 10:18 -0700
  Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2014-10-24 11:10 +0200
  Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-11-05 04:36 -0800
    Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2014-11-05 08:23 -0800
      Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-05 20:47 +0100
        Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2014-11-05 17:32 -0800
          Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-11-05 21:37 -0500
            Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2014-11-05 20:00 -0800
              Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-11-05 23:32 -0500
                Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-11-06 08:48 +0100
                Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-06 15:09 +0100
                Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-11-06 09:50 -0500
                Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-06 18:21 +0100
                Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-06 18:34 +0100
                Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-06 23:03 +0100
                Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-11-06 17:21 -0500
                Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-07 00:07 +0100
                Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? "Bob(but not" THAĊ˘ "Bob)" <nobody@nowhere.net> - 2014-11-07 08:48 +0000
                Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-08 11:28 +0100
        Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-11-20 03:12 -0800
          Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2014-11-20 13:24 +0100
            Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-11-20 19:06 +0100
              Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2014-11-20 22:54 +0100
                Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Brixomatic <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-22 08:54 +0100
                Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Brixomatic <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-22 09:19 +0100
    Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7? Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2014-11-29 07:44 +0000

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