> On 29 Jul 2016, at 09:23, Fabian Lange <lange.fab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is especially sad because after having mad the String, write()
> will then copy out the chars of the string and then iterate over the
> chars individually.
As far as I can see no one iterates over chars individually. Instead, bulk write
is invoked with the char array from the String [1].
In contrast with java.io.OutputStream, java.io.Writer encourages bulk writes,
not single char writes. So the premise is that a concrete subclass provides
efficient bulk write. If this doesn't hold, then one could override
Writer append(CharSequence csq)
in this class to behave exactly like you said.
> Something an iteration over chars of the CharSequence could have
> achieved much better.
I'm not sure about this. But you could prove it with a set of benchmarks for
concrete subclasses in the JDK.
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[1]
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/9410dfad9f32/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/Writer.java#l203
