RFR [9] 8151384: Examine sun.misc.ASCIICaseInsensitiveComparator

[Chris Hegarty]

On 9 Mar 2016, at 13:03, Claes Redestad <claes.redestad at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 2016-03-09 13:17, Peter Levart wrote:
>>> 
>>> When digging through old history to try to find out why java.util.jar.Attributes
>>> was ever using ASCIICaseInsensitiveComparator, it was not clear that
>>> performance was the motivation.
>> 
>> I guess looking-up a manifest attribute is not a performance critical operation, you are right. 
> 
> Could this be an old startup optimization, since first call to String.toLowerCase/toUpperCase will initialize and pull in java.util.Locale and friends? If so it's probably not effective any more.
> 
> Coincidentally - due to a recent regression - we're currently spending quite a bit of time parsing manifests of all jar files on the classpath, making ASCIICaseInsensitiveComparator show up prominently in some startup profiles.

Not any more ( it is no longer with us )!!

Interesting… let me know if you issues once this change makes its
way into a promoted build, or during your performance investigations.

BTW. I am not against doing something “smarter” for Attributes.hashCode.
I just didn’t think it was relevant, or performance sensitive, any more.

-Chris