[infinispan-dev] Early Access b93 is available for JDK 9 on java.net

[Tristan Tarrant]

On 27/11/2015 13:36, Rory O'Donnell wrote:

> JEP 254: Compact Strings (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/254)
>
> This JEP adopts a more space-efficient internal representation for strings.
>
> We propose to change the internal representation of the String class
> from a UTF-16 char array to a byte array plus an encoding-flag field.
> The new String class will store characters encoded either as
> ISO-8859-1/Latin-1 (one byte per character), or as UTF-16 (two bytes per
> character), based upon the contents of the string. The encoding flag
> will indicate which encoding is used.


This one sounds very promising, in the context of our last talks.

Tristan


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Tristan Tarrant
Infinispan Lead
JBoss, a division of Red Hat