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jeberle | on: C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
Java strings are byte[]'s if their contents contain only Latin-1 values (the first 256 codepoints of Unicode). This shipped in Java 9.

JEP 254: Compact Strings

https://openjdk.org/jeps/254