[External] : Re: MemorySegment APIs for reading and writing strings with known lengths

[Liam Miller-Cushon]

>
> For the non-\0 terminated strings, you have the String-based
> MemorySegment::copy I described - e.g.
>
> void copy(String srcString, Charset srcCharset, int srcIndex, MemorySegment dstSegment, long dstOffset, int length);
>
> With this, we also have two cases:
>
> * if the charset is compatible with the string buffer, we just bulk-copy
> the string buffer (or a portion of it) into the dest segment
> * otherwise we can encode the srcString directly into the dest segment
>
Thanks! I think I'm caught up now. My misunderstanding was whether
MS::ofString was being suggested instead of and not in addition to the bulk
copy.
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