RFR 8234147 : Avoid looking up standard charsets in core libraries

[Ivan Gerasimov]

Thank you Alan for the further review!

On 11/27/19 12:53 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 27/11/2019 11:52, Ivan Gerasimov wrote:
>> :
>>
>> It's not clear how to distinguish the classes inside the java.base 
>> module that do not have to depend on sun.nio.cs.  If you feel strong 
>> about NTLM and XML, I can replace sun.nio.cs.* instances with 
>> corresponding java.charset.StandardCharsets.* constants in these 
>> classes.
> There isn't any way to say what is core and non-core in java.base so 
> you have to use your judgement. My personal view is that the NTLM, 
> XML, SOCKS and several others in this patch should stick to the 
> standard APIs if possible as their performance will likely be 
> dominated by other factors.


Personally, I think that using constants sun.nio.cs.xxx.INSTANCE is not 
too bad even in the code that is unlikely to be executed during the VM 
startup.  One small advantage is that if the code is copy/pasted within 
the java.base module, it will not bring the risk of early initialization 
of StandardCharsets.

With NTLM, however, switching to StandardCharsets allows to remove 
sun.nio.cs.UTF_16LE.INSTANCE and all other corresponding modifications.

So, I used StandardCharsets in NTLM (and in XML and SOCKS, as you 
suggested), and left sun.nio.cs constants in all other places.

Here's the updated webrev:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/8234147/02/webrev/

It builds fine, tests run fine.

-- 
With kind regards,
Ivan Gerasimov