2006/12/18, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Pavel Pervov (JIRA) wrote: >> [drlvm][classlib] Missing compressed strings support in java.lang.String. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Key: HARMONY-2737 >> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-2737 >> Project: Harmony >> Issue Type: Improvement >> Components: Classlib >> Reporter: Pavel Pervov >> >> >> Currently, DRLVM supports "compressed" strings (where character occupies 1 byte instead of 2). This improves performance on operations with pure ASCII strings (like ones present in XML processing). >> But this implementation depends on the presence of special field 'bvalue' of type 'byte[]' in java/lang/String and the support for operations on "compressed strings" in this class. It would be nice to have this support implemented in java.lang.String. It will work only with VMs supporting "compressed" one-byte strings. > > This is making harmony-specific extensions to the Java API which would > prevent us from passing the TCK and obtain certification. > > I like the idea, but the cost outweighs the benefits. I assume that Pavel is suggesting a 'private byte[] bvalue' field.
Package private is also acceptable.
SY, Alexey
