Doubt in equals and == . Please help.

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

class Et {
public static void main(String args[]) {

Integer i1 = 1000;
Integer i2 = 1000;
if(i1 != i2) System.out.println("different objects");
if(i1.equals(i2)) System.out.println("equal value");
}
}

produces the Output

different objects
equal value


but

class Et {
public static void main(String args[]) {

Integer i1 = 10;
Integer i2 = 10;
if(i1 != i2) System.out.println("different objects");
if(i1.equals(i2)) System.out.println("equal value");
}
}

produces

equal value


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I am not getting the Reason Please Help ME..

[Nicola Garofalo]

That's an example taken from the book K&B.

I report the explanation:

In order to save memory, two instances of the
following wrapper objects (created through boxing), will always be == when their
primitive values are the same:
■ Boolean
■ Byte
■ Character from \u0000 to \u007f (7f is 127 in decimal)
■ Short and Integer from -128 to 127

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

Ya it is from the book K&B..


But Still i have doubt in my Question why the two output are different. what is the difference between Integer i=10 and Integer i=1000. That means above 127 will not be same?? What is the reason?? also i didn't get that Sentence--" In order to save memory".

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

Ya it is from the book K&B..

Thanks a lot Nicola. You again helped me.

[Jesper de Jong]

Please UseCodeTags when you post source code.

[Nicola Garofalo]

Yes you save memory on the heap. you have one object instead of two.

the values are automatically unboxed so you are comparing two primitive constants and not two objects.

When you write:

Integer i1 = 10;
Integer i2 = 10;

You have one Integer object with value 10 referenced by i1 and i2.


Different is the case of

Integer i3 = new Integer(10);
Integer i4 = new Integer(10);

where you force i3 and i4 to reference two different objects on the heap memory.

It's quite the same thing it happens with String literals.

If you type

String s1 = "hallo";
String s2 = "hallo";

s1==s2 returns true because there is 1 object on the heap "hallo" referenced by s1 and s2 and by the String Literal Pool