Inflater/Deflater improvements (original) (raw)

Ulf Zibis Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de
Mon May 18 18:00:47 UTC 2009

Am 04.05.2009 23:38, Martin Buchholz schrieb:

I think many people will be interested in performance improvements in Inflater/Deflater. I may have time to help review.

Yes, there is also interest from charset de/encoding side. See: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6818736 http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6818737

Current charset mapping tables are hosted as huge String constants inside charset classes. Hosting them as resource data files would would avoid ~50 % disk-footprint wastage of the charsets.jar. Additionally sharing of overlapping charset mapping data would become manageable. Currently we only have ClassLoader#getResouceAsStream() to load such data files, but we can't use it, because the underlying buffered stream is too slow in respect of JVM startup time. We need fast nio direct buffer access via java.nio.channels.Channel to load the data from charsets.jar.

So improving performance of jar/zip file access would be much appreciated. :-)

-Ulf

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