On Wed, 14 May 2025 17:56:04 GMT, Markus KARG <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> I think this is just a convenience API. A CharSequence-returning API would >> suit better if it supports arbitrarily long lengths (assuming such a length >> is in the range of int), while String has implementation limits on lengths >> and is allowed to fail for this API with OOME. If we make this a >> CharSequence-returning API that fails with OOME for String implementation >> limits, I don't think this will please anybody. > > As being a server developer for decades I need to say that I would love to > have this not for convenience but for the performance reasons explained > above, and that `int` length is perfect to speed up 99,9% of all cases. So we > should not forget about `CharSequence` hastily. BTW, it will not fail with OOME, but it should throw IOE in that case. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24728#discussion_r2089464567
