Class SmallIntStrings

java.lang.Object

org.ek9lang.compiler.support.SmallIntStrings

public final class SmallIntStrings
extends Object

THE shared cache of small non-negative int-to-String conversions — use this instead of String.valueOf(int) / Integer.toString(int) when the result is squirrelled or otherwise retained per symbol.

String.valueOf(n) allocates a fresh ~48 B String on every call, so stamping a metric (COMPLEXITY, COGNITIVE_COMPLEXITY, ...) on tens of thousands of symbols leaves tens of thousands of distinct String objects even though the underlying values repeat heavily (a handful of small integers). Returning a shared, pre-computed String for 0..1024-1 collapses those to one object per distinct value — retained-heap saving, not just churn.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	of(int value)	The decimal String for value, shared for 0..1023 and freshly computed (rare) beyond that.

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Details

of

public static String of(int value)

The decimal String for value, shared for 0..1023 and freshly computed (rare) beyond that.