[Mono-devel-list] [PATCH] Field Layout Optimization

[Jonathan Gilbert]

[MyAttribute("abc")]
public class MainClass
{
  static void Main()
  {
    string a = "a";
    string b = "bc";
    Console.WriteLine(string.IsInterned(a + b));
  }
}

At 09:56 AM 15/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>String.Intern Method --
>If the value of str is already interned, the system's reference is
>returned; otherwise, a new reference to a string with the value of str
>is returned
>
>String.IsInterned Method --
>A String reference to str if it is in the common language runtime
>"intern pool"; otherwise a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).
>
>I am not sure what you mean by your first comment. String.IsInterned
>("abc") will always return true (because abc is a literal in the code,
>so it will be interned when the code runs.
>
>>>> "Jonathan Gilbert" <2a5gjx302 at sneakemail.com> 03/15/04 08:12 AM >>>
>I don't know about this particular detail for sure, but just thought I'd
>point out that the string being interned does not imply that the
>interned
>copy will always be used. You might want to check string.IsInterned on
>"abc"..
>
>Speaking of which, why doesn't Java's string intern table have a way to
>check if a string is interned without actually interning it? Just idle
>thoughts...
>
>Jonathan
>
>At 08:38 PM 14/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>I am not so sure. For example, if you do something like:
>>
>>[MyAttribute ("abc")]
>>
>>And query for the attribute many times, the string is not interned. It
>>is different any time.
>>
>>He might have been saying that all strings in the string heap are
>>interned at load.
>>
>>-- Ben
>>
>>On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 18:48, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 18:24, Ben Maurer wrote:
>>> <snip/>
>>> >       * Is it correct to load strings that are stored in literal
>fields
>>> >         as interned. The reason I did this was to ensure that we
>dont
>>> >         create a string on each access (which is incorrect).
>However, I
>>> >         am not sure if it shoudl be interned.
>>> 
>>> See: http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2003/04/22/51371.aspx
>>> 
>>> .NET automatically interns all strings literals inside the assembly
>when
>>> the assembly is loaded.  The blog notes that: 
>>> 
>>>         This is expensive and -- in retrospect -- may have been a
>>>         mistake.  In the future we might consider allowing individual
>>>         assemblies to opt-in or opt-out.
>>> 
>>> For compatibility, we'll probably want to do the same, which is what
>>> you're doing.  So this is the path of least resistance. :-)
>>> 
>>>  - Jon
>>> 
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