RFR: 8309622: Re-examine the cache mechanism in BaseLocale

[Albert Mingkun Yang]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 22:17:39 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is stemming from the PR: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/14211 where aggressive GC can cause NPE in `BaseLocale$Key` class. I refactored the in-house cache with WeakHashMap, and removed the Key class as it is no longer needed (thus the original NPE will no longer be possible). Also with the new JMH test case, it gains some performance improvement:
> 
> (w/o fix)
> 
> Benchmark                       Mode  Cnt      Score     Error  Units
> LocaleCache.testForLanguageTag  avgt   20   5781.275 ± 569.580  ns/op
> LocaleCache.testLocaleOf        avgt   20  62564.079 ± 406.697  ns/op
> 
> (w/ fix)
> Benchmark                       Mode  Cnt      Score     Error  Units
> LocaleCache.testForLanguageTag  avgt   20   4801.175 ± 371.830  ns/op
> LocaleCache.testLocaleOf        avgt   20  60394.652 ± 352.471  ns/op

test/hotspot/jtreg/gc/TestAllocHumongousFragment.java line 180:

> 178:  */
> 179: 
> 180: /*

Could you move this block a few lines above (e.g. next to the block of `id=iu-aggressive`) so that similar tests are grouped together?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14404#discussion_r1226617033