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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:29:57 +0400
From: "Vladimir Strigun" <vstrigun@gmail.com>
To: dev@harmony.apache.org
Subject: Re: [contribution] Contribution of charset encoders/decoders for
 NIO_CHAR module
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On 4/9/07, Andrew Zhang <zhanghuangzhu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/9/07, Vladimir Strigun <vstrigun@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/9/07, Andrew Zhang <zhanghuangzhu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Super cool!!!
> > > Does it mean we're not dependent on ICU any more?
> >
> > Unfortunately not all charsets supported with attached bundle. The
> > list of supported charsets you could find in README file.
>
>
> Hi Vladimir, not unfortunately at all. :)
>
> We're on the way to be independent of ICU, right? ;)

Yes, you right,  we're on the way :)


> > On 4/9/07, Vladimir Strigun <vstrigun@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all!
> > > >
> > > > I'm happy to announce one more contribution to harmony on behalf of
> > > > Intel. Provided implementation of charset encoders/decoders is
> > > > intended to replace the ICU-based charsets encoding/decoding
> > > > operations. The code was developed in clean-room environment inside
> > > > Intel and I'd like you to play with it and include to current Harmony
> > > > tree.
> > > >
> > > > The package could be found there:
> > > > HARMONY-3593
> > > >
> > > > The algorithms for charsets encoding/decoding differs from that of
> > > > ICU, all charsets are generated from current Harmony or any other
> > > > implementation of Java and could be properly integrated into current
> > > > nio_char module. The archive contains source files for 6 charsets:
> > > > GB18030, US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE;
> > > > implementation of CharsetProvider; generator for other Charsets and
> > > > native part. I've tested the package with more that 90 charsets, and
> > > > all benchmarks and tests passed with new bundle. Additionally I have
> > > > significant boost for Dacapo.antlr and Dacapo.xalan benchmarks with
> > > > current Harmony tree on DRLVM and IBM VM. On DRLVM I have 2.5x boost
> > > > for antlr and ~5-8x for xalan.
> > > >
> > > > The main advantages of the package are the following:
> > > >   - Code for every charset is generated by CharsetGenerator, thus, if
> > > > some modification would be necessary we need just correct generator
> > > > and re-generate all sources.
> > > >   - We use 2 different encoders and decoders for java and direct
> > > > buffers. Since most applications use java heap buffers, unlike
> > > > existing implementation it doesn't produce lots of native calls to
> > > > perform encoding/decoding operations on the java buffers those
> > > > significantly improving performance. This is the main reason why we
> > > > have such a significant boost for Dacapo.
> > > >   - Charset tables for encoding/decoding are stored in appropriate
> > > > classes.
> > > >
> > > > Since the package contains implementation for 6 charsets only,
> > > > documentations how to generate and build additional charsets you could
> > > > find in README file from contributed package.
> > > >
> > > > Please do not hesitate to contact me for more details.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Vladimir.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Best regards,
> > > Andrew Zhang
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Andrew Zhang
>