<i18n dev> RFR: 8309622: Re-examine the cache mechanism in BaseLocale

[Roger Riggs]

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

One other thing to consider...
If the BaseLocale entries are being GC'd sooner, then perhaps the value of the String.intern() is reduced.
Eliminating `.intern90` would make creating a normalized BaseLocale faster.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14404#issuecomment-1587662100