Integrated: 8302863: Speed up String::encodeASCII using countPositives
Claes Redestad
redestad at openjdk.org
Tue Feb 21 13:34:37 UTC 2023
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:26:08 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:
> When encoding Strings to US-ASCII we can speed up the happy path significantly by using `StringCoding.countPositives` as a speculative check for whether there are any chars that needs to be replaced by `'?'`. Once a non-ASCII char is encountered we fall back to the slow loop and replace as needed.
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> An alternative could be unrolling or using a byte array VarHandle, as show-cased by Brett Okken here: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2023-February/100573.html Having to replace chars with `?` is essentially an encoding error so it might be safe to assume this case is exceptional in practice.
This pull request has now been integrated.
Changeset: 92dfa117
Author: Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org>
URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/92dfa1175e4898fc491115e004380780b6862473
Stats: 24 lines in 1 file changed: 11 ins; 2 del; 11 mod
8302863: Speed up String::encodeASCII using countPositives
Reviewed-by: alanb
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12640
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