String interning when string caching is disabled

[BrettShearer]

Hi - I assume that the following method is the code that extracts the encoded/compressed resource strings or strings in general.

I can see that this is interning the result string (str2). If this is the case, why is the static hashtable required.

public static string Get(int #05b)
{
#05b -= #Z5b;
if (#Y5b)
{
string str = (string) #z5b[#05b];
if (str != null)
{
return str;
}
}
int count = 0;
int index = #05b;
int num3 = #Xp[index++];
if ((num3 & 0x80) == 0)
{
count = num3;
if (count == 0)
{
return string.Empty;
}
}
else if ((num3 & 0x40) == 0)
{
count = ((num3 & 0x3f) << 8) + #Xp[index++];
}
else
{
count = ((((num3 & 0x1f) << 0x18) + (#Xp[index++] << 0x10)) + (#Xp[index++] << 8)) + #Xp[index++];
}
try
{
byte[] bytes = Convert.FromBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(#Xp, index, count));
string str2 = string.Intern(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes, 0, bytes.Length));
if (#Y5b)
{
try
{
#z5b.Add(#05b, str2);
}
catch
{
}
}
return str2;
}
catch
{
return null;
}
}

[james.billings]

The hashtable is used to look up decoded strings to save decoding everything every time you reference one. The interning, I believe, just helps the performance of this.

Was there a specific reason you were asking?

[BrettShearer]

Just checking as I have long running services where interning may take too much memory (I am hosting applications and have about 300 running on one machine). Interning may impact memory use for me.

[james.billings]

Ah, okay- it's all related to the "I want to cache strings..." option so turning that off may be worth trying to see if it helps in your scenario.