the guava library has an interner that does exactly what you'd want for a cache of strings, without blowing up the jvm's internal code cache (which iirc is what

the guava library has an interner that does exactly what you'd want for a cache of strings, without blowing up the jvm's internal code cache (which iirc is what String.intern() uses). https://guava.dev/releases/22.0/api/docs/com/google/common/collect/Interners.html https://guava.dev/releases/22.0/api/docs/com/google/common/c...