New String

[Srinivas Katta]

Hi All,

What is the difference between String a="a" and String a=new("a")?

Can anybody explain thsi diagrammatically for better understanding

Thanks
Srinivas

[Jelle Klap]

String a = "a";
String a = new String("a");

In both cases the literal value "a" is a compile-time constant that will end up in the String contant pool.
At runtime the former will always refer to the String object in the constant pool, so you don't end up with lots of String objects that represent the same value.
The latter will always create a new String object with value "a", which is not as efficient and nearly always unneccesary.
Unless you have a good reason to worry about the efficiency of sharing the backing - potentially huge - char[] array with String's returned by invocations of the substring() method.
But that's a rare case.

[Ninad Kuchekar]

Hi Srinivas,

I guess this might help you.

-Ninad

[Hebert Coelho]

Strings got their own pool. If you do String name = "a"; The JVM will look at the pool for someone just like that, and will point your name object to the "a" String in the pool.

If you do new String("A"); you will be creating a new object.

[Campbell Ritchie]

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[Muhammad Khojaye]

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[Ram Narayan.M]

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