[piinbinary]

I did the same [0]. It runs almost as fast as the Java implementation.

I'd be interested to see how yours works if you are willing to share it.

Edit: Plus one that is ~2x faster than Java by avoiding allocations [1].

[0] https://gist.github.com/jmikkola/6ac96ad6d6f66e772c33ec41ed2...

[1] https://gist.github.com/jmikkola/7ded8392226b7659c881f5540be...

[sorokod]

Note that internally Java represents strings as utf-16

[grandinj]

Depends. The API for strings in java is mostly UTF16 but the latest JVM will magically use UTF8 as its internal representation.

[pjmlp]

Only the Oracle one, it doesn't apply to other vendors.