Rewrite of IBM doublebyte charsets

Xueming Shen Xueming.Shen at Sun.COM
Wed May 20 22:22:04 UTC 2009


Ulf, thanks for the review!

Now we have a bugid for this one. The webrev has been updated to address 
some of your
suggestions (see my below) and rename to

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/6843578/webrev
(old webrevs are still there with webrev.0x)

With this change,
(1)21% reduce of rt.jar size (from 2.99M-with the euc_tw reduce to 2.35M)
(2)much faster coding performance,  a quick/not_really_a_benchmark 
result can been found at
    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/6843578/codingPerm
(3)also addressed the bugids listed below.

6639450: IBM949C encoder modifies state of IBM949 encoder
6569191: Cp943 io converter returns U+0000 and U+FFFD for unconvertable 
character
6577466: Character encoder IBM970 throws a BufferOverflowException
5065777: CharsetEncoder canEncode() methods often incorrectly return false

The test case test/sun/nio/cs/OLD/TestIBMDB.java is used to make sure 
there is no mapping
regression, there are new mapping entries added (because switching to 
the latest IBM cdc
mapping tables for some charsets, which the b2c tables we have are not 
accurate/complete), but
no conflit with previous mappings.

Alan, Martin, I need you guys also help review the change, I will need a 
name on the putback message.
The number of file is huge, but only the files listed at beginning need 
attention:-)

Sherman

Ulf Zibis wrote:
>
> *** Decoder-Suggestions:
>
> (1) Unused imports in DoubleByte-X.java:
>    import java.util.Arrays;
>    import sun.nio.cs.StandardCharsets;
>    import static sun.nio.cs.CharsetMapping.*;
>    import sun.nio.cs.ext.DoubleByte;  // or instead: static 
> sun.nio.cs.ext.DoubleByte.*;
>
done! good catch.

>
> (3) Modify dimension of b2c:
>      char[][] b2c = new char[0x100][segSize];
>    so decode :
>      public char decodeDouble(int b1, int b2) {
>          if ((b2-=b2Min) < 0 || b2 >= segSize)
>              return UNMAPPABLE_DECODING;
>          return b2c[b1][b2];
>      }
>   Benefit[1]: increase performance of decoder
>   Benefit[2]: reduce memory of B2C_UNMAPPABLE from 8192 to 512 bytes
>   Benefit[3]: some of b2c pages could be saved (if only containing 
> \uFFFD)
>
A good suggestion. I tried, and it does bring in about 10%+% gain of 
decoding (for non-direct buffer,
we also have similar gian in direct buffer, but the % number is not this 
big). The webrev has been updated
for this one.


> (4) Don't care about b2Max (it's always not far from 0xff):
>   Benefit[4]: another performance increase of decoder (only check: 
> (b2-=b2Min) < 0)
Decided to keep it. We do have some charsets (not included this time) 
that care about b2max.

>
> (5) Truncate String segments (there are 65 % "\uFFFD" in IBM933):
>    (fill b2c segments first with "\uFFFD", then initialize)
>   Benefit[5]: save up to 180 % superfluous memory and disk-footprint
Changing from the b2c index from 4-bit to 8-bit (#2) should have already 
improved this a lot (I see
a 1.5%+ improvement of overall charsets.jar)

>
> (6) Unload b2cStr from memory after startup:
>    - outsource b2cStr to additional class file like EUC_TW approach
>    - set b2cStr = null after startup (remove final modifier)
>   Benefit[6]: avoid 100 % superfluous memory-footprint
>
I doubt it really saves something real, since the "class" should still 
keep its copy somewhere...and
I will need it for c2b (now I'm "delaying" the c2b init)

> (7) Avoid copying b2cStr to b2c:
>    (String#charAt() is fast as char[] access)
>   Benefit[7]: increase startup performance for decoder
>
I tried again last night. char[][] is much faster than the String[] 
version in both client
and server vm. So keep it asis. (this was actually I switched from 
String[] to char[][])


>
> (9) Share mappings (IBM930 and IBM939 are 99 % identical):
>   Benefit[9]: save up to 99 % superfluous disk-footprint
>   Benefit[10]: save up to 99 % superfluous memory-footprint (if both 
> charsets are loaded)
>
I still want to keep one map for one charset, at least for now. It might 
be something worth researching
in the future.

> (12) Get rid of sun.io package dependency:
>   
> https://java-nio-charset-enhanced.dev.java.net/source/browse/java-nio-charset-enhanced/tags/milestone2/src/sun/io/ 
>
>   Benefit[13]: avoid superfluous disk-footprint
>   Benefit[14]: save maintenance of sun.io converters
>   Disadvantage[1]: published under JRL (waiting for launch of 
> OpenJDK-7 project "charset-enhancement") ;-)
>
This is not something about engineering. It's about license, policy...

>
> (17) Decoder#decodeArrayLoop: shortcut for single byte only:
>      int sr = src.remaining();
>      int sl = sp + sr;
>      int dr = dst.remaining();
>      int dl = dp + dr;
>      // single byte only loop
>      int slSB = sp + sr < dr ? sr : dr;
>      while (sp < slSB) {
>          char c = b2cSB[sa[sp] && 0xff];
>          if (c == UNMAPPABLE_DECODING)
>              break;
>          da[dp++] = c;
>          sp++;
>      }
>     Same for Encoder#encodeArrayLoop
>
> (18) Decoder_EBCDIC: boolean singlebyteState:
>      if (singlebyteState)
>          ...
>
> (19) Decoder_EBCDIC: decode single byte first:
>      if (singlebyteState)
>          c = b2cSB[b1];
>      if (c == UNMAPPABLE_DECODING) {
>          ...
>      }
>   Benefit[20]: should be faster
>
>
Not like when we dealing with singlebyte charsets. For doublebyte charsets
the priority should be given to doublebyte codepoints, if possible. Not 
single
byte codepoints.


> *** Encoder-Suggestions:
>
> (21) join *.nr to *.c2b files (25->000a becomes 000a->fffd):
>   Benefit[21]: reduce no. of files
>   Benefit[22]: simplifies initC2B() (avoids 2 loops)
>
In theory you can do some magic to "join" .nr into .c2b. The price might 
be more complicated
logic depends on the codepoints. You may end up doing some table lookup 
for each codepoint
in b2c when processing.

And big thanks for all the suggestions.



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