20:27
Was parsing LOOKUPSWITCH and TABLESWITCH and I calculated the offset after
padding, but I was adding an extra 4 to read the counts and lengths. I forgot
that it was relative to the base address so it messed up. I actually figured
it out for LOOKUPSWITCH but I forgot it for TABLESWITCH until I figured it
out again.
20:42
PrintStream is buffered, but what should the buffer size be? This is a
limited and constrained environment so it cannot be a huge value.
20:44
I peeked at Java SE to see what the buffer size was but it just uses
BufferedWriter and OutputStreamWriter which honestly is much easier of a
solution that doing buffering myself. Then I can implement two classes at once
anyway.
20:57
Java SE's buffer size is 8KiB! I think that is far too much, since these are
char I will use a buffer size of 128 since that is 256 bytes. There really
does not need to be that much text to be buffered.
21:08
However, thinking about it PrintStream does allow direct byte writing so I
pretty much will have to skirt around the encoder anyway. I will need to
handle flushing the buffer if there are characters to be written and such, so
I think it would be best to do the duplicated work and not use these other
classes. It can just be buffered at the byte level I would say, that would be
the easiest and definitely the encoder will do everything.
21:52
And I can have a smaller buffer size optimized for console output, so that will just be a lofty 96 bytes! This is large enough to be useful for text but small enough to not use insane amounts of memory.