--- old/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp	2013-07-11 14:20:54.970089478 -0700
+++ new/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp	2013-07-11 14:20:54.826079534 -0700
@@ -2588,9 +2588,6 @@
   product(bool, AggressiveOpts, false,                                      \
           "Enable aggressive optimizations - see arguments.cpp")            \
                                                                             \
-  product(bool, UseStringCache, false,                                      \
-          "Enable String cache capabilities on String.java")                \
-                                                                            \
   /* statistics */                                                          \
   develop(bool, CountCompiledCalls, false,                                  \
           "counts method invocations")                                      \