String Deduplication - A new feature in Java 8 Update 20Strings consume a lot of memory in any application. Especially the char[] containing the individual UTF-16 characters is contributing to most of the memory consumption of a JVM by each character eating up two bytes. It is not uncommon to find 30% of the memory consumed by Strings, because not only are Strings the best format to interact with humans, but also popular HTTP APIs use lots of Strings.
