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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