String interning (WAS: SAX2/Java: Towards a final form)

[David Megginson]

"Clark C. Evans" <clark.evans at manhattanproject.com> writes:

>   ( lhs == rhs | lhs.equals(rhs) )

I think that the Java2 library does something close to this; however,
it's efficient only when the strings *are* identical, not when they're
not


All the best,


David

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