RFR 8222955 : Optimize String.replace(CharSequence, CharSequence) for Latin1 encoded strings

[Peter Levart]

On 4/30/19 6:43 AM, Ivan Gerasimov wrote:
> I used StringConcatHelper.newArray() to avoid bringing Unsafe into 
> StringLatin1.
> In the StringLatin1.replace(), the newly allocated array is guaranteed 
> to be filled up, and the filling code should never throw, so I believe 
> using uninitialized arrays here is justified. 

...even if it throwed (and throwing in the middle could be provoked with 
for example Thread.stop), the allocated array would not escape the 
function. So the method just has to guarantee that when it returns 
normally, all bytes of array have been overwritten and that the array is 
published securely (i.e. assigned to a final field of an object who's 
reference is returned from the method)...

Peter