I also like the memory usage reductions (both with the new string representation and for lists).
About the OS/2 support: they have been asking for a volunteer to take over building & maintaining that for years, and I'm surprised it took them this long to drop it... ;)
Posted Oct 1, 2012 20:21 UTC (Mon) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
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What I am curious about is when Java is going to adopt variable precision character storage like this. It certainly needs it, for the same reason that Python does, no?