RFR: 8231717: Improve performance of EBCDIC charset decoding for COMPACT_STRINGS

[Alan Bateman]

On 04/10/2019 20:55, Roger Riggs wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> That does seem more straightforward.
>
> The name ALWAYSCOMPACTABLE doesn't really match the rest of the
> nomenclature used in the compact string code.
>
> Can you change the name to LATIN1COMPATIBLE?
> Its similar to the ASCIICOMPATIBLE case and tied in to the Latin1 
> coding for used
> in StringCoding.
>
> I hope another Reviewer will take a look also.
I skimmed through the webrev and I think the approach looks good (and 
much better than the original suggestion to scan byte array when 
creating the Decoder).

-Alan