When are String Literals Garbage Collected?
posted 24 years ago
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Does anyone know when a String literal that exists in the string pool is garbage collected, if ever?
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Dan
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Dan
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A string literal is never GC, since it was not created on the heap.
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Dan Temple
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Ah ... right! What a stupid question on my part.
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Dan
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Not at all. Everything seems easy after you know how it works!
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But if a string literal is never GC:ed (or removed in some other way), couldn't that lead to out of memory if you create a lot of large temporary Strings?
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You should distinguish between String literals - which are part of the code - and String objects - which are constructed at run time, allocated on the heap and GCd like any other object.
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Andreas Johansson
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Guess I'm a bit confused here... What exactly is a string literal then?
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Andrea...
String a = "String Literal"
String b = new String("String Object");
A string literal is not created with the new keyword.
Bosun
String a = "String Literal"
String b = new String("String Object");
A string literal is not created with the new keyword.
Bosun
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Of course... Simple as that. =) I think I made it more complicated then neccesary.
And I hope that you just missed the 's' in Andreas, I'm not a girl, you know. ;-)
Thanks anyway
/Andreas
And I hope that you just missed the 's' in Andreas, I'm not a girl, you know. ;-)
Thanks anyway
/Andreas
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