JVM -XX:+StringCache argument?

Question

I was recently reading about all the JVM arguments available in JRE 6 [Java VM Options] and saw this :

-XX:+StringCache : Enables caching of commonly

Answer 1

As of JDK 8.0, this option has been removed. It is unclear to me what, if anything, can be used as a replacement.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/unix/java.html

 -XX:+UseStringCache

    Enables caching of commonly allocated strings. This option was removed from JDK 8 
    with no replacement.