RFR [10]: 8186517: sun.nio.cs.StandardCharsets$Aliases and ClassMap can be lazily loaded

[Xueming Shen]

On 8/23/17, 8:48 AM, Claes Redestad wrote:
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> On 08/23/2017 04:52 PM, Claes Redestad wrote:
>> We still need to key on the lower-case name in the cache for now:
>>
>
> Or perhaps not. Since we're always loading these three Charset on
> bootstrap now, we might as well initialize them eagerly and bypass
> the cache entirely (but keep this neatly contained in StandardCharset).
>
> This allows us to lazily load the $Cache class too, further reducing
> work done during System.initPhase1:
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8186517/jdk.02/
>
if we go that far :-) shouldn't we simply expose the utf8/8859-1/ascii 
charset
instance directly?
if we go with String.equals then any reason we still need define the 
String constants?
why the signature change in utf8.java for updatePositions()?

sherman