On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:29:43 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <b...@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.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1329
