DO NOT REPLY [Bug 21452] New: - Writing to UTF-8 can be faster by not using s.charAt(i) when looping through chars in the input String

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Writing to UTF-8 can be faster by not using s.charAt(i) when looping through chars in 
the input String

           Summary: Writing to UTF-8 can be faster by not using s.charAt(i)
                    when looping through chars in the input String
           Product: XalanJ2
           Version: CurrentCVS
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: org.apache.xalan.serialize
        AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


WriterToUTF8Buffered loops through characters like this in the input String s:

int len = s.length();
for (int i =0 ; i < len ; i++)
{
  char c = s.charAt(i);
  // ... process the character
}

Much faster is:
s.getChars(0,len,charArray,0);
for (int i=0; i < len ; i++)
{
  char c = charArray[i];
  // ... process the character
}


WriterToUTF8 could also run quicker by using an internal array of bytes to 
accumulate bytes. At least one call on WriterToUTF8 could result in one call to 
the underlying OutputStream rather than upto 3*N calls where N is the number of 
input characters.