Great thank you.
Actually I would recommend removing the StringWriter. StringWriter is using
StringBuffer inside which is synchronized.
In case of ASTStringLiteral there is no need to synchronize anything. There
must be a Writer implementation based on StringBuilder instead.
I have a run a search on the latest 2.0 code and it seems like there is a
number of places where StringBuffer is used.
Unless synchronization is required those usages should really be replaced
with StringBuilder(s).
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As far our usage of large string literal it was in a legacy framework that
we had.
It was creating a system of macros to render "tiles" on a page.
Similar to this syntax (not real):
@#PageSection(param1, param2....)
@#SubSection("tileName1")
some html
#end
@#SubSection("tileName2")
some other html
#end
#SubSection("tileName3", "/blah/blah/section.vtl")
#end
Velocity macros with body allow only one body block (special parameter
really).
We needed multiple named body blocks which we could render in the correct
spots inside of the macro.
We are no longer using this framework, but that is where we had large
string literals appearing.
I think we replaced the StringBuffer with some unsynchronized chunked
implementation to avoid allocation of very large strings and unnecessary
synchronzation.
Alex
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Claude Brisson <cla...@renegat.net> wrote:
> FYI, we got rid of the Executor pattern in the events API, and we now
> always provide the current Context when calling handlers.
>
>
> On 29/11/2016 23:25, Alex Fedotov wrote:
> [...]
>
>> We have run into some other inefficient places. For example
>> ASTStringLiteral is buffering the entire content in the StringWriter. It
>> does not work very well for large templates.
>> That code creates a writer which buffers up the whole thing, then does a
>> toString() on it creating another copy. Then in some cases calls
>> substring() that creates yet another copy.
>>
>
> The substring belonged to an old workaround, it has been removed.
>
> The StringWriter buffering is only done when interpolation is needed (that
> is, when the string literal is enclosed in double quotes and has some $ or
> # inside). There could be some tricky ways of introducing some kind of lazy
> evaluation, that would resort to using the provided final writer when the
> value is meant to be rendered or to a buffered writer otherwise. But I'm
> not sure it is worth it, because it looks rather fragile and convoluted.
> Plus, you can generally avoid having big string literals. I don't know
> about your use case, but why can't something as:
>
> #set($foo = "#parse('big.vtl')") $foo
>
> be rewritten as:
>
> #parse('big.vtl')
>
> to avoid the buffering?
>
>
> Claude
>
>
>
