String.subSequence and CR#6924259: Remove offset and count fields from java.lang.String

[Martin Desruisseaux]

Le 26/06/12 20:10, Mike Duigou a écrit :
>>       StringBuilder.append(string.substring(lower, upper));
>> by:
>>       StringBuilder.append(string, lower, upper);
> This would seem to be a good refactoring regardless of the substring implementation as it avoids creation of a temporary object.

The rational was that the performance advantage of using 
System.arraycopy(...) instead than a loop over CharSequence.charAt(int) 
may compensate the cost of creating a temporary object. I would not be 
surprised if the former was faster than the later for large substrings 
despite the temporary object creation. However it may not be true 
anymore now that substring(...) performs a copy. Of course this would 
need to be verified with benchmark...

     Martin