commit 3cf3009c2b1701b7c8e0c1ccbda1a2021cda8ded
author No Author <dev-null@apache.org> Sat Aug 20 00:58:48 2005 +0000
committer No Author <dev-null@apache.org> Sat Aug 20 00:58:48 2005 +0000
tree 5a4280304e2d9568813aa4ba0ab117a8e91a0ca9
parent 54c07cb0cceba51a482cd08b577332cd5d2e9788

This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag 'v1_2_12_rc4'.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/log4j/tags/v1_2_12_rc4@311495 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

src/java/org/apache/log4j/CategoryKey.java

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/log4j/CategoryKey.java b/src/java/org/apache/log4j/CategoryKey.java
index e6be750..e3fad5b 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/log4j/CategoryKey.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/log4j/CategoryKey.java
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@
 package org.apache.log4j;
 
 /**
-   CategoryKey is a wrapper for String that apparently accellerated
-   hash table lookup in early JVM's.
+   CategoryKey is heavily used internally to accelerate hash table searches.
    @author Ceki Gülcü 
 */
 class CategoryKey {
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@
   int hashCache;
 
   CategoryKey(String name) {
-    this.name = name;
+    this.name = name.intern();
     hashCache = name.hashCode();
   }
 
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@
       return true;
     
     if(rArg != null && CategoryKey.class == rArg.getClass()) 
-      return  name.equals(((CategoryKey)rArg ).name);
+      return  name == ((CategoryKey)rArg ).name;
     else 
       return false;
   }