Inflater/Deflater improvements

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 04.05.2009 23:38, Martin Buchholz schrieb:
> I think many people will be interested in performance improvements
> in Inflater/Deflater.  I may have time to help review.
>   

Yes, there is also interest from charset de/encoding side. See:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6818736
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6818737

Current charset mapping tables are hosted as huge String constants 
inside charset classes. Hosting them as resource data files would would 
avoid ~50 % disk-footprint wastage of the charsets.jar. Additionally 
sharing of overlapping charset mapping data would become manageable. 
Currently we only have ClassLoader#getResouceAsStream() to load such 
data files, but we can't use it, because the underlying buffered stream 
is too slow in respect of JVM startup time. We need fast nio direct 
buffer access via java.nio.channels.Channel to load the data from 
charsets.jar.

So improving performance of jar/zip file access would be much 
appreciated. :-)

-Ulf