Re: [WebMacro-user] Can a FastWriter ever be recycled in the current model?

[Keats K. <ke...@xa...>]

Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes wrote:

>... obvious to remove is 
>the ByteBufferOutputStream.reset() which currently is implemented as:-
>
>  /**
>   * Clear the contents of the byte buffer.  Also shrinks the byte buffer
>   * to the size specified during construction of this ByteBufferOutputStream
>   */
>  public void reset ()
>  {
>      _pos = 0;
>      _buf = new byte[_initialSize];
>  }
>
>This is currently (in my testbed) only ever getting invoked during:-
>
>	ByteBufferOutputStream.reset()
>  
>
[I assume this is a typo and it doesn't actually call itself. ]

>	FastWriter.flush()
>  
>
I agree that this shouldn't re-allocate.

>	FastWriter.close()
>  
>
No sense allocating on a close.

>	WMTemplate.evaluateAsBytes()
>  
>
I'm not quite sure why this would reset anything.  It seems like you 
should explicitly flush or close after evaluating if you want to.

Keats