[Mono-dev] [PATCH] Speed up ByteEncoding.GetString()

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> Invoking non-public methods using SRE is widely used by our class library, 
> it is supported by the ECMA standards so I don't really understand what you 
> mean on "access to internal methods will at some point broken".

As I said, this might be something that we will fix in the future, and
although it works today, it does not mean it will work today, I do not
want to add more dependencies that might prevent us from fixing it in
the future.

Besides, poking at string internals is not something am very excited
about supporting nor encouraging.  The last time we did something
"unsafe" like this, it was reviewed over and over, and it turned out to
be buggy, it took months to track the mysterious bug because the
conditions were very hard to reproduce.

> Note that even using "new string ((char) 0, length)" is faster than the 
> current implementation.

That part of the patch is fine with me.

Miguel