Compares two byte[] arrays, element by element, and returns the number of elements common to both arrays.

Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.

Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.

Serves as a hash function for a particular type.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

Return the same string object for all equal strings

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Compares two strings, character by character, and returns the first position where the two strings differ from one another.

Returns a String that represents the current Object.

Expert: The StringInterner implementation used by Lucene. This shouldn't be changed to an incompatible implementation after other Lucene APIs have been used.