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  • Subject: Re: Adding String functions?
  • From: "Richard Dettinger" <cujo@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:28:03 -0600
  • Importance: Normal


Sorry about the blank post... figures are faster than the brain sometimes
(which really isn't saying much).


"The net is, if you want a better String, you'll have to write your
own.  Sorry."

I don't know because I have never needed to investigate this, but this
might not be such a difficult task.  Afterall, all the source code for the
JDK is available.  I once needed to build my own input stream class and
found the job much easier by studying the code of the java.io package.
Perhaps taking a look at the source to java.lang.String will reveal that
you can accomplish what you want quite easily.

Regards,

Richard D. Dettinger
AS/400 Java Data Access Team

"Biologists have a special word for stability -- dead"

                Larry Wall
                Open Source Developers Journal
                Issue 1, Jan  2000


Larry Loen/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS@midrange.com on 03/12/2001 02:27:34 PM

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Subject:  Re: Adding String functions?




Unfortunately, String is both immutable and final.  Final means
you can't subclass it.

There are performance and strategic reasons for this.  The
performance ones are that immutable objects have some
minor optimizations available (at a cost in cluttering up your heap with
nearly identical objects).  The strategic one is that String is
by and large automatically thread safe.   (Note that while the String
_itself_ is thread safe, the variable you have somewhere that
holds the reference to a String is not threadsafe in itself).

The net is, if you want a better String, you'll have to write your
own.  Sorry.

You can also look at StringBuffer, which is mutable (at a cost-
everything is synchronized) but it is at least extendable.


Larry W. Loen  -   Senior Java and AS/400 Performance Analyst
                          Dept HP4, Rochester MN


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