RFR: 8369564: Provide a MemorySegment API to read strings with known lengths
Liam Miller-Cushon
cushon at openjdk.org
Wed Oct 29 10:58:02 UTC 2025
This PR proposes adding a new overload to `MemorySegment::getString` that takes a known byte length of the content.
This was previously proposed in https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/20725, but the outcome of [JDK-8333843](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8333843) was to update `MemorySegment#getString` to suggest
byte[] bytes = new byte[length];
MemorySegment.copy(segment, JAVA_BYTE, offset, bytes, 0, length);
return new String(bytes, charset);
However this is less efficient than what the implementation of getString does after [JDK-8362893](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8362893), it now uses `JavaLangAccess::uncheckedNewStringNoRepl` to avoid the copy.
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Commit messages:
- 8369564: Provide a MemorySegment API to read strings with known lengths
Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28043/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28043&range=00
Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8369564
Stats: 152 lines in 4 files changed: 136 ins; 14 del; 2 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28043.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/28043/head:pull/28043
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28043
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