java.lang.String的Intern()方法的利弊

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Java6 API  

public String intern()

Returns a canonical representation for the string object.

A pool of strings, initially empty, is maintained privately by the class String.

When the intern method is invoked, if the pool already contains a string equal to this String object as determined by the equals(Object) method, then the string from the pool is returned. Otherwise, this String object is added to the pool and a reference to this String object is returned.

It follows that for any two strings s and t, s.intern() == t.intern() is true if and only if s.equals(t) is true.

All literal strings and string-valued constant expressions are interned. String literals are defined in §3.10.5 of the Java Language Specification

Returns:a string that has the same contents as this string, but is guaranteed to be from a pool of unique strings.

官方文档：http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#intern()

优点：

        1.intern()使得每个字符串都是字符串池中字符串的引用，而字符串池中的所有字符串都是唯一的，可以节省内存；

        2.通过引用来比较字符串的速度更快（==比equals(object）速度快）。

缺点：

         1.为了确保字符串池中的字符串都是唯一的，需要做大量工作；

         2.必须确保对所有的字符串都用了intern（）方法，这样对他们比较时才能都用==,而且这种想法必须让团队中的所有成员知道；

         3.intern（）后的字符串都存储在PermGen空间中，这个空间相对较小，因此会导致OutOfMemoryError ，即便此时空闲栈空间还很充足。

参考文章：

https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2012/03/save-memory-by-using-string-intern-in-java/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091045/is-it-good-practice-to-use-java-lang-string-intern

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