Withdrawn: Re-examine buffering and encoding conversion in BufferedWriter

Shaojin Wen swen at openjdk.org
Tue Sep 9 08:13:40 UTC 2025


On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:48:40 GMT, Shaojin Wen <swen at openjdk.org> wrote:

> BufferedWriter -> OutputStreamWriter -> StreamEncoder
> 
> In this call chain, BufferedWriter has a char[] buffer, and StreamEncoder has a ByteBuffer. There are two layers of cache here, or the BufferedWriter layer can be removed. And when charset is UTF8, if the content of write(String) is LATIN1, a conversion from LATIN1 to UTF16 and then to LATIN1 will occur here.
> 
> LATIN1 -> UTF16 -> UTF8
> 
> We can improve BufferedWriter. When the parameter Writer instanceof OutputStreamWriter is passed in, remove the cache and call it directly. In addition, improve write(String) in StreamEncoder to avoid unnecessary encoding conversion.

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26022


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