Re: String/Hashtable bootstrapping problem

[John Leuner]

> > > I have encountered a problem trying to initialize the String and Hashtable
> > > classes.  Here's the problem:
> > > 
> > > - Hashtable uses String constants like "loadFactor" and "threshold" which
> > >   are initialized in Hashtable.<clinit>.
> > 
> > You are mistaken, these are primitive types (ints and floats).
> 
> I'm talking about these lines from java.util.Hashtable:
> 
>   // used for serializing instances of this class
>   private static final ObjectStreamField[] serialPersistentFields =
>     { new ObjectStreamField("loadFactor", float.class),
>       new ObjectStreamField("threshold", int.class) };

I didn't see these. Further inspection shows that they're not in my copy of 
Hashtable.java. I have revision 1.13 from CVS, which one are you using?
 
I have a method in my JVM which makes a String object from an Ascii string. 

At the end I have this code:

  //Now return the value of String.intern
   {
      jmethodID mid = CLASSFILE_FindMethod( env, ODEREF(hObjectTemp)->pstType, 
"intern", "()Ljava/lang/String;");
      if(mid)
        {
          return (*env)->CallObjectMethod( env, hObjectTemp, mid);
        }
      else
        {
          eprintf("System method String.intern() not found, bailing out\n");
          assert(2 == 3);
         }
    }

Of course, this is potentially a serious speed killer, a JVM should make the 
string allocation as fast as possible.

John Leuner