<i18n dev> RFR: 8372460: Use EnumMap instead of HashMap for DateTimeFormatter parsing to improve performance [v7]

[Chen Liang]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2025 10:02:36 GMT, Shaojin Wen <swen at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR optimizes the parsing performance of DateTimeFormatter by replacing HashMap with EnumMap in scenarios where the keys are exclusively ChronoField enum values.
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>> When parsing date/time strings, DateTimeFormatter creates HashMaps to store intermediate parsed values. HashMap has more overhead for operations compared to specialized map implementations.
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>> Since ChronoField is an enum and all keys in these maps are ChronoField instances, we can use EnumMap instead, which provides better performance for enum keys due to its optimized internal structure.
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>> Parsing scenarios show improvements from 12% to 95%
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> Shaojin Wen has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   remove redundant checkField

This looks reasonable in principle. However, we need to verify we indeed won't run into putting non-chronofield into an enum map by accident, and this is a bit hard...

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Marked as reviewed by liach (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28471#pullrequestreview-3580903973