<i18n dev> RFR: 8302871: Speed up StringLatin1.regionMatchesCI [v7]

[Martin Buchholz]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:48:04 GMT, Martin Buchholz <martin at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Perhaps @Martin-Buchholz could chime in and also tell us which book he found his ASCII trick in :)
>
> "oldest trick in the book" is a phrase that does not necessarily imply existence of an actual book!
> 
> Let this evoke an image of a **personal** book of tricks that programmers in the 1960s might have recorded such techniques in.  And the tricks were passed down across generations of programmers!

More to the point, ASCII was obviously **designed** to allow you to uppercase a lower case letter with a single instruction, so "the book" might have been a draft standard before they scrubbed out the interesting history!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12632