string hash performance

Mon Aug 19 09:46:00 GMT 2002

On 2002年8月19日, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> >I did some benchmarking with the cachedHashCode bits of your patch.
> >Interestingly, it helped considerably on my interpreter benchmarks,
> >chopping about 15% off total run time.
> >
>> Thanks for benchmarking this. It looks like this is a clear win to me.
> Given that its also what the JDK appears to do, I think we should go
> ahead and change String to cache the hashCode.

Or just approve Eric's merge patch. It probably needs updating though.
Jeff