advancedJVM Internals & Memory
How do you tune the String Pool for an application creating millions of unique strings?
The String Pool is a fixed-bucket hash table (65,536 buckets by default in Java 11+); millions of unique strings cause hash collisions and degrade lookup performance. Fix with -XX:StringTableSize=<prime number> sized for your actual string volume.
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