Heinz M. Kabutz (via Hacker News): From Java 1.0 up to 1.6, String tried to avoid creating new char[]’s. The substring() method would share the same underlying char[], with a different offset and length. For example, in StringChars we have two Strings, with “hello” a substring of “hello_world”. However, they share the same char[]. This … Continue reading Java Strings No Longer Share Storage