http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Sun, 26 May 2013 00:59:09 -0400 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 Also: the maximum length of a string is not 2^31 because Java saves Strings in modified UTF-16 where one character in supplemental Unicode planes can take up to 6 bytes but not contain a zero-byte (which is great for C...]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:24:05 -0500 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:24:05 -0500 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:24:05 -0500 Feb 16, 2008 James Watson 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 A memory leak in Java land is the same as a memory leak in any other land...]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:50:27 -0500 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:50:27 -0500 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:50:27 -0500 Feb 16, 2008 James Watson 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:53:10 -0500 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:53:10 -0500 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:53:10 -0500 Feb 16, 2008 John Vance 2 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:24:37 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:24:37 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:24:37 -0500 Feb 15, 2008 Matthew Inger 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 This is true in older versions of Java (including 1.4) for String.subString() and StringBuffer.toString() also but seems to have been done away with in recent versions....]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:56:35 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:56:35 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:56:35 -0500 Feb 15, 2008 James Watson 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:15:31 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:15:31 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:15:31 -0500 Feb 15, 2008 Raffaele Guidi 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 Isn't the maximum size of a String 2^16 characters?
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Or do I have it wrong? It's Integer.MAX_VALUE (= 2^31 -1), the maximum length of a char[] (in theory).]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:13:35 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:13:35 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:13:35 -0500 Feb 15, 2008 Stefan Zobel 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:06:00 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:06:00 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:06:00 -0500 Feb 15, 2008 Joseph Ottinger 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:51:58 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:51:58 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:51:58 -0500 Feb 15, 2008 Ivaylo Kovatchev 2 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 I didnt understand how the below code is causing memory leaks. can you tell me...

Rope r = new Rope();
r = r.substring(0, 1);...]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:50:29 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:50:29 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:50:29 -0500 Feb 15, 2008 James Watson 1 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:02:39 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:02:39 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:02:39 -0500 Feb 15, 2008 balanagireddy mudiam 3 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 It's a very cool approach, and clearly has some good efficiency advantages. But it has some drawbacks too, which he mentioned in a side bar to his article, but not prominently. Namely: ropes can cause major memory leaks.

For...]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:26:50 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:26:50 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:26:50 -0500 Feb 15, 2008 Sam Ferguson 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:23:33 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:23:33 -0500 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:23:33 -0500 Feb 15, 2008 Paul Fremantle 1 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:34:45 -0500 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:34:45 -0500 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:34:45 -0500 Feb 14, 2008 David Rosenstrauch 7 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48390 A rope...]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:02:45 -0500 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:02:45 -0500 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:02:45 -0500 Feb 14, 2008 Matt Papendorf 14