RFR(S): 8055032: Improve numerical parsing in java.net and sun.net

[Alan Bateman]

On 13/08/2014 15:02, Claes Redestad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can I have a review for this patch to take advantage of offset-based 
> parseInt methods added in
> 8041972 for java.net/sun.net classes?
>
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8055032
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8055032/webrev.0
>
> This causes fewer temporary String objects to be allocated and shows a 
> direct throughput improvement
> in micros (1.2x in java.net.URLDecoder#decode and 
> sun.net.www.ParseUtil#decode, for example)
These changes look okay to although the downside is that it's less 
readable in a few places.

Are there micro benchmarks being created as part of this work? If so, 
are they being pushed to a repository in OpenJDK for use by others?

-Alan