RFR: 8181147: JNI_GetStringPlatformChars should have a fast path for UTF-8

Xueming Shen xueming.shen at oracle.com
Fri May 26 18:32:40 UTC 2017


Isn't UNICODE::as_utf8  the version of modified-utf8?

-sherman

On 5/26/17, 10:58 AM, Claes Redestad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> various JNI methods in the JDK converts from java Strings to native
> encoding using JNI_GetStringPlatformChars, which has long standing
> optimizations for dealing with various default charsets.
>
> However, UTF-8 is missing, which is a shame since we have optimized
> utilities for converting from a String to UTF-8-encoded char* (since
> this is the native encoding used by HotSpot internally).
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8181147/jdk.00/
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8181147
>
> Allocation rate can drop significantly in microbenchmarks, e.g., -60%
> in a trivial micro doing new File(path).isHidden() (along with a 30%
> throughput win), while the rate of native allocation with is net neutral.
>
> (I think the code for FAST_646_US could be removed, since Solaris 8
> support was dropped in JDK 8, but that's a separate RFE...)
>
> Thanks!
>
> /Claes



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