Re: serialization oddity in Alias

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From: Archie Cobbs (archie@whistle.com)
Date: Thu Feb 11 1999 - 14:26:09 EST


Godmar Back writes:
> > Looks like they've fixed a bug in their implementation. Aren't
> > Strings in the Constant Table supposed to be interned by default? Or
> > it's just that I didn't really understand the interning difference?
>
> No, I don't think the JVM spec says anything about that. It's an
> implementation optimization, that's all.

The definition of the intern() method does require that

    "aa".intern() == "aa"

however.. See:

  http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#intern()

-Archie

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