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Profiling

Posted by Shriram Shivakumar on April 25, 2000 at 4:50 PM

Well. You could use any Java Profiling tool to find out how many objects of a particular type are created. A simple solution is to use the Sun's profiler, which comes with the JDK.

> Hi Bill,

> Is there any way that we can find out how many objects have been
> created in runtime?

> In the following condition,
> String s1 = "Hello world";
> Stirng s2 = new String("Hello world");
> How many objects have been created??
> Since they have the same hashcode, does it mean that they are
> the same object??

> Thank you

> Jane