[infinispan-dev] Early Access b93 is available for JDK 9 on java.net

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 27 November 2015 at 13:19, Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 27/11/2015 13:36, Rory O'Donnell wrote:
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>> JEP 254: Compact Strings (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/254)
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>> This JEP adopts a more space-efficient internal representation for strings.
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>> We propose to change the internal representation of the String class
>> from a UTF-16 char array to a byte array plus an encoding-flag field.
>> The new String class will store characters encoded either as
>> ISO-8859-1/Latin-1 (one byte per character), or as UTF-16 (two bytes per
>> character), based upon the contents of the string. The encoding flag
>> will indicate which encoding is used.
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> This one sounds very promising, in the context of our last talks.

Yes, but we also need a way to Marshall these efficiently. I haven't
looked yet, but I'd assume we'd need to be able to read that internal
flag somehow, to adjust wire encoding strategies.
Hopefully David will get interested?

Sanne