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Re: SAX2: Namespace proposal

  • From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
  • To: David Megginson <david@m...>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:28:35 -0800

jvm c heap
David Megginson wrote:
> 
> Miles Sabin <msabin@c...> writes:
> 
> > > If I were doing it over, though, I would actually call
> > > java.lang.String.intern once for each of the strings in the
> > > intern table so that they were == to the regular intern'ed
> > > versions.
> >
> > Try it, but I think you'll be more likely to lose than gain.

Having done this, I'll disagree.  The cost wasn't observable.

Except ... that processing some documents blew up a fixed-size
table in at least one incarnation of the JDK 1.1.x JVM.  I saw
that in a pathological stress test case (which generated random
documents), never once "in the wild", but it does provide yet
another reason to use a better JVM (like JDK 1.2.x) on servers
and in other cases where you expect the JVM to live a long time.


> I'd appreciate more information here -- if I call
> java.lang.String.intern the first time I add a string to the intern
> table, then the cost is proportional to the number of entries in the
> table, not the number of accesses.

Right.  The man cost being mapping from a portion of a buffer
to the String ... a "local" intern.  Going one step beyond that
to a "global" intern (using the JVM) is cheap, since it's hardly
ever done.

- Dave

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