RFR: 8361018: Re-examine buffering and encoding conversion in BufferedWriter [v6]

[Chen Liang]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 00:01:21 GMT, Shaojin Wen <swen at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> BufferedWriter -> OutputStreamWriter -> StreamEncoder
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>> 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.
>
> Shaojin Wen has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Revert "BufferedWriter buffer use StringBuilder"
>   
>   This reverts commit da902ca0b0bd6acc003deb8ad1ca0d6485a29a27.

It is not about exposing the implementation details of StringBuilder: it is just exporting a method for StringBuilder to encode itself with an ArrayEncoder (which has LATIN1/UTF16 entrypoints) to general JDK audiences.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26022#issuecomment-3028212631