Friday, September 2, 2016

String pool differences in java 6 and java 7

While reading a blog here, I found a quite interesting improvements in String Pool


  • String pool is relocated to Java heap space from PermGen space.
  • The default size of String pool is increased to 600013 entries from 1009 in Java 6.
  • The -XX:StringTableSize JVM option is provided to specify the size of String pool. 

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