On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:52:05 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <s...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Please review this modification of `java.io.InputStream.skipNBytes(long)` to
>> improve its performance when `skip(long)` skips fewer than the requested
>> number of bytes. In the current implementation, `skip(long)` is invoked once
>> and, if not enough bytes have been skipped, then `read()` is invoked for
>> each of the remaining bytes to be skipped. The proposed implementation
>> instead repeatedly invokes `skip(long)` until the requested number of bytes
>> has been skipped, or an error condition is encountered. For cases where
>> `skip(long)` skips fewer bytes than the number requested, the new version
>> was measured to be up to more than one thousand times faster than the old
>> version. When `skip(long)` actually skips the requested number of bytes, the
>> performance difference is insignificant.
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/InputStream.java line 596:
>
>> 594: * @see java.io.InputStream#skip(long)
>> 595: */
>> 596: public void skipNBytes(long n) throws IOException {
>
> Not related to this change, but looks like `@since` is missing.
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8256183
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1329
