Inefficient code of String.indexOf(String) (original) (raw)

Anubhav Chaturvedi mailforanubhav at gmail.com
Mon Jun 17 19:08:16 UTC 2013


Thank you all for the quick response. I will perform some tests and get in touch again asap. On Jun 17, 2013 10:45 PM, "David Chase" <david.r.chase at oracle.com> wrote:

For sufficiently large strings, indexOf can also be profitably parallelized.

David On 2013-06-17, at 2:14 AM, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com> wrote: > You are not the first person to have this idea. > It is unlikely that you will succeed in changing the algorithm, because the > jit-optimized brute-force algorithm is "almost always" faster. > But go ahead and prove me wrong! > > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Anubhav Chaturvedi <_ _> mailforanubhav at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have recently started to explore the source code and am new to the open >> source community. I observed that in String.class within java.lang , the >> indexOf method, line 1715, uses the bruteforce approach when it comes to >> string matching. This method is used by the contains(CharSequence) method. >> There are a number of algorithms that can perform the task more >> efficiently. >> >> I would like to bring the required changes and needed your advice on this.



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