假设你有一个字符串s,并持有他的字串s',那么即使你不再持有字符串s的引用,JVM也不会使用垃圾回收机制回收s,这在SUN的网站上被报告为一个bug,http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id =4513622 。当然有人认为这是一个bug,也有人认为不是一个bug。
看一个代码: public class TestGC { private String largeString = new String(new byte[100000]); private String smallString = "foo"; String getString() { // if caller stores this substring, this customer will not be gc'ed return this.largeString.substring(0,2); // return new String(this.largeString.substring(0,2)); // no error here! // return smallString; // no error here! } public static void main(String[] args) { java.util.ArrayList list = new java.util.ArrayList(); for (int i = 0; i 字符串其实是保存了value的开始和结束索引,并不产生一个新的字符串。
跟踪到substring的实现可见: public String substring(int beginIndex, int endIndex) { if (beginIndex count) { throw new StringIndexOutOfBoundsException(endIndex); } if (beginIndex > endIndex) { throw new StringIndexOutOfBoundsException(endIndex - beginIndex); } return ((beginIndex == 0) && (endIndex == count)) ? this : new String(offset + beginIndex, endIndex - beginIndex, value); } // Package private constructor which shares value array for speed. String(int offset, int count, char value[]) { this.value = value; this.offset = offset; this.count = count; }
看一个代码: public class TestGC { private String largeString = new String(new byte[100000]); private String smallString = "foo"; String getString() { // if caller stores this substring, this customer will not be gc'ed return this.largeString.substring(0,2); // return new String(this.largeString.substring(0,2)); // no error here! // return smallString; // no error here! } public static void main(String[] args) { java.util.ArrayList list = new java.util.ArrayList(); for (int i = 0; i 字符串其实是保存了value的开始和结束索引,并不产生一个新的字符串。
跟踪到substring的实现可见: public String substring(int beginIndex, int endIndex) { if (beginIndex count) { throw new StringIndexOutOfBoundsException(endIndex); } if (beginIndex > endIndex) { throw new StringIndexOutOfBoundsException(endIndex - beginIndex); } return ((beginIndex == 0) && (endIndex == count)) ? this : new String(offset + beginIndex, endIndex - beginIndex, value); } // Package private constructor which shares value array for speed. String(int offset, int count, char value[]) { this.value = value; this.offset = offset; this.count = count; }