Brian Jones wrote: >Is the point to avoid having to initialize String or do subsequent >method calls in native code to convert the string to a char array? >The change can be made, but get this, I think a small library (JNI) >should be provided that implements the new method and calls the old or >something similar provided documentation-wise. > The new form is simpler and cleaner for VMs to implement, and a tiny bit more efficient. Obviously we should document the change in the release notes or whatever. VMs can provide both forms of the function during the transition.
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