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Which is the most efficient way of creating a string object in java? String s="helo"; or String s=new String("helo"); in terms of memory usage?
Thanks in advance...

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Read it for yourself

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String objects are immutable and you can always reuse something that is immutable because you know that it isn't going to get modified. When you are writing "String s = new String("hello");", you are creating an unnecessary object; not only that it is also inefficient cause objects creation itself is. Moreover an object created this way cannot be reused. If this statement gets called in a loop or in a method it would unnecessarily create several objects which could all have been represented by a single one. So always use the "String s = "hello";" version instead of the other, this way any other string object with the same string literal can reuse this one.

PS: You seem so intelligent when parotting intelligent people....Here the intelligent person is Joshua Bloch, psst...but let this be sold on my name.

EDIT : Beaten, Peter has pointed out the exact article/item I was mentioning from.

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I'm just lazy to type it specially if I can find exact page of whatever I read previously on given topic ;)

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