static char[] charBufferFromThreadLocal() {
    // ThreadLocal is not available to GWT, so we always reuse the same
    // instance.  It is always safe to return the same instance because
    // javascript is single-threaded, and only used by blocks that doesn't
    // involve async callbacks.
    return CHAR_BUFFER;
  }

  private Platform() {}

   * This needs to be a @JsMethod so that J2CL knows to look for a JavaScript implemention of
   * it in Platform.native.js. (The JavaScript implementation inline below is visible to *GWT*, but
   * *J2CL* doesn't look at it.)
   *
   * However, once it's a @JsMethod, GWT produces a warning. That's because (a) the *other* purpose
   * of @JsMethod is to make a method *callable* from JavaScript and (b) this method would not be