On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:04:41 GMT, Roger Riggs <rri...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This is the javadoc of `JavaLangAccess::newStringNoRepl`:
>>
>>
>> /**
>> * Constructs a new {@code String} by decoding the specified subarray of
>> * bytes using the specified {@linkplain java.nio.charset.Charset
>> charset}.
>> *
>> * The caller of this method shall relinquish and transfer the ownership
>> of
>> * the byte array to the callee since the later will not make a copy.
>> *
>> * @param bytes the byte array source
>> * @param cs the Charset
>> * @return the newly created string
>> * @throws CharacterCodingException for malformed or unmappable bytes
>> */
>>
>>
>> It is recorded in the document that it should be able to directly construct
>> strings with parameter byte array to reduce array allocation.
>>
>> However, at present, `newStringNoRepl` always copies arrays for UTF-8 or
>> other ASCII compatible charsets.
>>
>> This PR fixes this problem.
>
> It seems odd that the benchmark seems slower for smaller files; can you
> suggest why that might be?
> I'd expect the size distribution for Files.readString to be biased toward the
> smaller files.
> Can you repeat the benchmark using the default file system. OS file caching
> should eliminate the disk speed effects.
@RogerRiggs I have revised it according to your suggestion. Can you have a look
again?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12119
