InfoQから。 http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/12/Oracle-Tunes-Java-String Stringのような基本型に大きな仕様変更が入ることは稀ですが、 1.7.0_06でアグレッシブな変更が入ったらしいです。 以下、適当和訳。 In an ongoing effort to improve Java performance, Oracle has announced a change in the internal representation of strings in the String class as of Java 1.7.0_06. The change, removing two non-static fields from the underlying String implementation, was done to