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| <H1>Buffers and Encodings</h1> |
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| This package contains buffers and utils to perform encoding/decoding of buffers. That includes byte to char |
| conversions, URL encodings, etc. |
| |
| <p> |
| Encoding is a critical operation for performance. There are few tricks in this package - the C2B and |
| B2C converters are caching a ISReader/OSWriter and keep everything allocated to do the conversions |
| in any VM without any garbage. |
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| <p> |
| This package must accomodate future extensions and additional converters ( most important: the nio.charset, |
| which should be detected and used if available ). Also, we do have one hand-written UTF8Decoder, and |
| other tuned encoders could be added. |
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| <p> |
| My benchmarks ( I'm costin :-) show only small differences between C2B, B2C and hand-written codders/decoders, |
| so UTF8Decoder may be disabled. |
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