Folks,
I believe that using arraycopy as shown below is not
guaranteed to work. One cannot assume that elements of a
Vector are stored in sequential memory locations, especially
as the Vector changes in size and memory is allocated in a
(possibly) fragmented manner obver time.
- chris
Uncle George wrote:
>
> technically we are to change only the platform dependent code - hands tied
> by license. Ur improvement would not fit into that catagory :( . PLEASE
> file away at javasoft.
> BTW this does not mean that it wont be used, or benefit those here. I have
> no problem with this being posted here
> gat
>
> Ernst de Haan wrote:
>
> > Small performance enhancement suggested.
> >
> > The performance of java.util.Vector.copyInto(Object[]) could be
> > improved, I believe. Currently the implementation does something like:
> >
> > public void copyInto(Object[] anArray)
> > {
> > int i = elementCount;
> > while (i-- > 0)
> > {
> > anArray[i] = elementData[i];
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Why not make it:
> >
> > public void copyInto(Object[] anArray)
> > {
> > System.arraycopy(elementData, 0, anArray, 0, elementData.length);
> > }
> >
> > I personally use the copyInto method very often.
> >
> > Is this the place I should post such issues, or should I contact
> > JavaSoft or so?
> >
> > Ernst
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