All,
I took a look at this code.  I vote for keeping it.  The reason is because
Java is string intensive and historically things like string compression
make a difference to heap footprint and cache miss performance.   It looks
like a significant amount of work has already been put in this code.

Craig,
It would be great if you can work on this code and get it going.  I would be
happy to work with you to get the mods committed to Harmony svn.




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      I noticed in the file trunk/vm/vmcore/src/util/vm_strings.cpp there
is some code to support the storage of strings in arrays of (8b)
bytes rather than arrays of (16b) unsigned shorts.  In the debugger,
I placed breakpoints in this code, and it was never active in my run.

      Can someone tell me the current status of this code and, if it is
active, how I can turn it on?  (From inspecting the source, it looked
inactive via hardcoding "false" on whether to compress the strings).
I might be interested in working on this code.


                          - Craig


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         Ivan Volosyuk    to harmony-dev
More options   Sep 20 (23 hours ago)
This is an old code and it is unused for quite some time. Most likely
it is broken.
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On 9/20/06, Craig Zilles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

        I noticed in the file trunk/vm/vmcore/src/util/vm_strings.cpp
there
is some code to support the storage of strings in arrays of (8b)
bytes rather than arrays of (16b) unsigned shorts.  In the debugger,
I placed breakpoints in this code, and it was never active in my run.

        Can someone tell me the current status of this code and, if it is
active, how I can turn it on?  (From inspecting the source, it looked
inactive via hardcoding "false" on whether to compress the strings).
I might be interested in working on this code.

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        Geir Magnusson Jr.    to harmony-dev
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So do we fix it or scrap it?


geir


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