<i18n dev> RFR: 8304245: Speed up CharacterData.of by avoiding bit shifting in the latin1 fast-path test

[Sergey Tsypanov]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:26:21 GMT, Eirik Bjorsnos <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> By avoiding a bit shift operation for the latin1 fast-path test, we can speed up the `java.lang.CharacterData.of` method by ~25% for latin1 code points.
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> The latin1 test is currently implemented as `ch >>> 8 == 0`.  We can replace this with `ch >= 0 && ch <= 0xFF` for a noticable performance gain (especially for Latin1 code points):
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> This method is called frequently by various property-determining methods in `java.lang.Character` like `isLowerCase`, `isDigit` etc, so one should expect improvements for all these methods.
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> Performance is tested using the `Characters.isDigit` benchmark using the digits '0' (decimal 48, in CharacterDataLatin1) and '\u0660' (decimal 1632, in CharacterData00):
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> Baseline:
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> Benchmark           (codePoint)  Mode  Cnt  Score   Error  Units
> Characters.isDigit           48  avgt   15  0.870 ± 0.011  ns/op
> Characters.isDigit         1632  avgt   15  2.168 ± 0.017  ns/op
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> PR:
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> 
> Benchmark           (codePoint)  Mode  Cnt  Score   Error  Units
> Characters.isDigit           48  avgt   15  0.654 ± 0.007  ns/op
> Characters.isDigit         1632  avgt   15  2.032 ± 0.019  ns/op

Marked as reviewed by stsypanov (Author).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13040