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

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:28:44 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 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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>> 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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> Some code inside the Locale still relies on `intern` and do `==` comparison. Yes, it would be faster but I think that would be out of the scope of this fix

@naotoj, we are still seeing the CI failures due to this. Are you planning to finish this work? Thanks!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14404#issuecomment-1788686569