On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:03:22 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This change may be  problematic for servers with a large number connections 
>> and an input stream for each connection. It could add up to 2k to the 
>> footprint of each connection when skip is used.
>
>> @AlanBateman You are correct about this. But I wonder if this be a problem, 
>> why Reader class can afford store a skip buffer for each Reader.
>> 
>> Is there anything different in the situations about skipBuffer in Reader and 
>> InputStream?
> 
> Maybe the skip buffer in Reader should be looked at too, esp. as it 
> couldpotentially grow to 16k bytes. The concern with changing 
> InputStream.skip is that there may be a lot more input streams than readers 
> in use, esp. if there is an input stream for every socket connection.

@AlanBateman Is the concern about holding more memory sufficient to retain the 
buffer using a SoftReference so it can be freed eagerly?
These buffers are never read from, so are quite a waste, but at least they are 
only used when
the underlying stream overrides skip.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5872

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