On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:46:24 GMT, Jorn Vernee <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> A user can easily convert between one or the other length representation by >>> multiplying/dividing by the right scalar >> >> That is true of e.g. UTF-16 but not of UTF-8, since the encoding is variable >> width and doing the conversion from bytes to characters is more expensive >> there. >> >>> Either way, we felt that it would be a good idea if you could send an email >>> to panama-dev in which you describe your exact use case, before getting >>> further into the code review. That would give others a chance to respond >>> with their use cases as well. >> >> Sounds good, thanks, I can start a thread discussing the use-case here at a >> higher level. > >> > A user can easily convert between one or the other length representation >> > by multiplying/dividing by the right scalar >> >> That is true of e.g. UTF-16 but not of UTF-8, since the encoding is variable >> width and doing the conversion from bytes to characters is more expensive >> there. > > Sorry, I don't mean 'character' but 'code unit'. For instance, when reading a > UTF-8 string, the unit would be one byte, for UTF-16 it would be two, for > UTF-32 four. So a user would just need to divide by the unit size, at least > that's the idea. > I can start a thread discussing the use-case here at a higher level. Done: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/panama-dev/2025-November/021182.html ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28043#discussion_r2487389933
