RFR: 8316662: Remove one allocation per conversion in Double.toString(double) and Float.toString(float)

Thu Sep 21 13:09:40 UTC 2023

On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:51:56 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulietti at openjdk.org> wrote:

> By correctly sizing an intermediate `byte[]` and making use of the internal `newStringNoRepl()` method, one allocation per conversion can be avoided when the runtime uses compact strings.

On my platform, conversions are never slower and are faster on short significands.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15861#issuecomment-1729530394