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# advent-of-code
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karelpeeters

12/08/2018, 9:15 PM
I think substrings are already "views".
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orangy

12/08/2018, 9:16 PM
not in the newest JVMs
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karelpeeters

12/08/2018, 9:17 PM
Huh. Did it become to complicated to GC the unnecessarily large backing arrays out or something?
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keturn

12/08/2018, 9:19 PM
that's what I would wonder. if
b = a.substring(7, 13)
doesn't copy, then
a
can't be garbage collected while
b
lives.
which is sometimes what you want but does not sound like a good default.
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