Implement String's valueOf function, code review request

Ok, code reviewers, I want you to pick my code apart and give me some feedback on how I could make it better or more simple.

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public final class StringValueOf {

private StringValueOf () {}

// note that int max value is 10 digits
final static int [] sizeTable = { 9, 99, 999, 9999, 99999, 999999, 9999999,
99999999, 999999999, Integer.MAX_VALUE };

private final static char[] DigitOne = {
'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',
'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',
'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',
'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',
'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',
'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',
'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',
'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',
'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',
'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',
};

private final static char[] DigitTens = {
'0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0',
'1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1',
'2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2',
'3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3',
'4', '4', '4', '4', '4', '4', '4', '4', '4', '4',
'5', '5', '5', '5', '5', '5', '5', '5', '5', '5',
'6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6',
'7', '7', '7', '7', '7', '7', '7', '7', '7', '7',
'8', '8', '8', '8', '8', '8', '8', '8', '8', '8',
'9', '9', '9', '9', '9', '9', '9', '9', '9', '9',
};

private static int stringSize(int x) {
for (int i = 0; ; i++) {
if (x = 10) {
int r = i % 100;
i = i / 100;

buf[charPos--] = DigitOne[r];
buf[charPos--] = DigitTens[r];
}

if (i > 0) {
buf[charPos--] = DigitOne[i];
}

if (charPos == 0) {

Since it's easy to convert integer digits to their character values ('0' = 0x30..'9' = 0x39), why not:

public static String stringValueOf(int value) {
  if (value == 0) return "0";
  if (value == Integer.MIN_VALUE) return "-2147483648";

  final boolean negative = value < 0;
  if (negative) value = -value;

  final StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
  while (value != 0) {
    int digit = value % 10;
    buf.append( (char)(0x30 + digit) );
    value = value / 10;
  }
  if (negative) buf.append('-');

  return buf.reverse().toString();
}

It's easy to test this for correctness over the int range; but to do so, I'd extract the StringBuilder construction from the method into a static class variable and just call buf.setLength(0) each time.

StackExchange Code Review Q#32109, answer score: 5