Can we avoid interning of strings in java?

Question

Can we completely disable interning of strings. It might not be really helpful, but just a thought. I can think atleast one point where it could be helpful i.e. during jvm t

Answer 1

Since Oracle's Java 7 the intern string pool isn't stored in PerGen anymore. Read more here http://java-performance.info/string-intern-in-java-6-7-8/