8179527: Ineffective use of volatile hurts performance of Charset.atBugLevel()

[Alan Bateman]

On 27/06/2017 08:36, Claes Redestad wrote:
>
> The check of Charset.atBugLevel in checkName should no longer happen 
> for the majority of situations, as that test is now only done if the 
> charset name is "" (see 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8174831), 
Kazunori's mail didn't mention the JDK build he is using, it may have 
been JDK 8 rather than JDK 9.

> since what differs between 1.4 and 1.5 was apparently whether or not 
> the empty string was to be accepted as a valid Charset...
>
> So yes, if we can get rid of the test altogether, we'll be even better 
> off!
JDK-4786884 is the original issue. If there was any code dependent on 
the broken behavior in 1.4 then I would expect it should have been fixed 
by now. So I think it can be removed.

-Alan