gecko-dev/gc/boehm/leaksoup/StringTable.java
2001-09-19 22:39:41 +00:00

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/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
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import java.util.Hashtable;
/**
* Provides a GC-able table of interned strings.
*/
class StringTable {
private Hashtable strings = new Hashtable();
public String intern(String str) {
String result = (String) strings.get(str);
if (result == null) {
// copy the string, to trim to minimum size.
result = str = new String(str);
strings.put(str, str);
}
return result;
}
public String internAs(String key, String value) {
value = new String(value);
strings.put(key, value);
return value;
}
}