Fastu is a small and fast UTF-8 encoder/decoder library for Java
It is in development, so I wouldn't use it in production yet.
Decoding UTF-8 bytes to Java String is around 35% faster comparing to the native String(byte[] data,String charset).
Only ASCII chars
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502512 ops with native java.
699300 ops with Fastu.
Other UNICODE chars
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39729 ops with native java.
47192 ops with Fastu.
That is great! Just fork the project in github. Create a topic branch, write some tests and the feature that you wish to contribute.
Thanks for helping!
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