Re: Prototyping a constructor of java String class

"Steffan, Otto (GE Consumer Finance)" wrote:
> ...
> I undestand that if I MORE often pass fixed-length field, VARYING is still 
> possible but not very good because parameters do not match(?) and RPG must 
> handle it.
> Does it mean that my idea of having a single prototype for String constructor 
> is basically wrong ? I have intended the prototype available to the RPG 
> programmers here (knowledge of Java support in RPG has not spread here yet) 
> and I do not know which parameter passing method will prevail.
> 

Otto, in general, the impact of copying the passed parameter to a
temporary will not make much difference in the time taken to create the
new string (or whatever Java method is being called with the byte array
parameter).  Whatever small time is taken to copy to a temporary will be
swamped by the time taken to 
 - translate the string to ASCII
 - create the new Java array object
 - call the String constructor

I wouldn't worry about it.