Support for Compressed Strings being Dropped in HotSpot JVM?

Question

On this Oracle page Java HotSpot VM Options, it lists -XX:+UseCompressedStrings as being available and on by default. However in Java 6 update 29, it is off by

Answer 1

Since there were up votes, I figure I wasn't missing something obvious so I have logged it as a bug (at the very least an omission in the documentation)

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7129417

(Should be visible in a couple of days)