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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Text;
namespace Microsoft.Build.Framework;
/// <summary>
/// A cached reusable instance of <see cref="StringBuilder"/>.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// An optimization that reduces the number of instances of <see cref="StringBuilder"/> constructed and collected.
/// </remarks>
internal static class StringBuilderCache
{
// The value 512 was chosen empirically as 95% percentile of returning string length.
private const int MAX_BUILDER_SIZE = 512;
[ThreadStatic]
private static StringBuilder? t_cachedInstance;
/// <summary>
/// Get a <see cref="StringBuilder"/> of at least the specified capacity.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="capacity">The suggested starting size of this instance.</param>
/// <returns>
/// A <see cref="StringBuilder"/> that may or may not be reused.
/// </returns>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>
/// Can be called any number of times. If a <see cref="StringBuilder"/> is in the cache then
/// it will be returned and the cache emptied. Subsequent calls will return a new <see cref="StringBuilder"/>.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// The <see cref="StringBuilder"/> instance is cached in Thread Local Storage and so there is one per thread.
/// </para>
/// </remarks>
public static StringBuilder Acquire(int capacity = 16 /* StringBuilder.DefaultCapacity */)
{
StringBuilder? builder;
if (capacity <= MAX_BUILDER_SIZE)
{
builder = t_cachedInstance;
t_cachedInstance = null;
Debug.Assert(
builder is null || builder.Capacity <= MAX_BUILDER_SIZE,
$"How did we get a builder with a capacity larger than MAX_BUILDER_SIZE?");
// Avoid StringBuilder block fragmentation by getting a new StringBuilder
// when the requested size is larger than the current capacity
if (builder?.Capacity >= capacity)
{
builder.Clear();
LogAcquire(builder, capacity, cacheHit: true);
return builder;
}
}
builder = new StringBuilder(capacity);
LogAcquire(builder, capacity, cacheHit: false);
return builder;
}
/// <summary>
/// Place the specified builder in the cache if it is not too big. Unbalanced Releases are acceptable.
/// The StringBuilder should not be used after it has been released. Unbalanced Releases are perfectly acceptable.
/// It will merely cause the runtime to create a new <see cref="StringBuilder"/> next time Acquire is called.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="builder">
/// The <see cref="StringBuilder"/> to cache. Likely returned from <see cref="Acquire(int)"/>.
/// </param>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>
/// The <see cref="StringBuilder"/> should not be used after it has been released.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// Unbalanced releases are perfectly acceptable. It will merely cause the runtime to create a new
/// <see cref="StringBuilder"/> next time Acquire is called.
/// </para>
/// </remarks>
public static void Release(StringBuilder builder)
{
if (builder.Capacity <= MAX_BUILDER_SIZE)
{
// Assert we are not replacing another string builder. That could happen when Acquire is reentered.
// User of StringBuilderCache has to make sure that calling method call stacks do not also use StringBuilderCache.
Debug.Assert(t_cachedInstance is null, "Unexpected replacing of other StringBuilder.");
t_cachedInstance = builder;
}
LogRelease(builder);
}
/// <summary>
/// Get a string and return its builder to the cache.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="builder">
/// <see cref="StringBuilder"/> to cache (if it's not too big).
/// </param>
/// <returns>
/// The <see langword="string"/> equivalent to <paramref name="builder"/>'s contents.
/// </returns>
/// <remarks>
/// Convenience method equivalent to calling <see cref="StringBuilder.ToString()"/> followed by <see cref="Release"/>.
/// </remarks>
public static string GetStringAndRelease(StringBuilder builder)
{
string result = builder.ToString();
Release(builder);
return result;
}
[Conditional("DEBUG")]
private static void LogAcquire(StringBuilder builder, int newCapacity, bool cacheHit)
=> Eventing.MSBuildEventSource.Log.ReusableStringBuilderFactoryStart(
hash: builder.GetHashCode(),
newCapacity: newCapacity,
oldCapacity: builder.Capacity,
type: cacheHit ? "sbc-hit" : "sbc-miss");
[Conditional("DEBUG")]
private static void LogRelease(StringBuilder builder)
=> Eventing.MSBuildEventSource.Log.ReusableStringBuilderFactoryStop(
hash: builder.GetHashCode(),
returningCapacity: builder.Capacity,
returningLength: builder.Length,
type: builder.Capacity <= MAX_BUILDER_SIZE ? "sbc-return" : "sbc-discard");
}
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