A collection of useful functions that don't fit in their own repos or libs but don't want to lose

various.go

/*
Useful functions for various random things.
Collected here as they don't justify full repos / libraries of their own
/*

// JAVA Analysis

// StringSizeInBytes determines the size of a java string in bytes given the number of chars in it.
// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31206851/how-much-memory-does-a-string-use-in-java-8
func StringSizeInBytes(numChars int, isJava8 bool) int {
  b := (8 * (int)(((numChars * 2) + 45)/8))
	if isJava8 {
    // Java 8 does not have the offset and length anymore (8 bytes worth)
    return b - 8
  }
  return b
}