Unicode script support in Regex and Character class

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 11.05.2010 18:41, schrieb Xueming Shen:
> Ulf Zibis wrote:
>> SOME of my comments below ARE ment for 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/6945564_6948903/webrev
>>
>> I marked the others. ;-)
>>
>>>>
>>>> - use Arrays.binarySearch() in Character.UnicodeBlock.of().
> This one can be discussed in a separate thread, I would prefer to stay 
> with the script support in this review.
>
>>>> - save UnicodeBlocks, BlockStarts and scriptStarts in a file 
>>>> instead statically in classfile.
>>>> -- e.g. init of scriptStarts is a big waste of byte code (7/11 
>>>> bytes per short/integer entry).
>>>>
> There are always different approaches, whatever approach you take , it 
> always has pros cons.
> Lazy initialization, especially with data extracted to external 
> resource, is not always the best choice.
> I truely believe it is not worth doing lazy initialization with 
> external data storage in this case (with
> a total of 2k size difference).

Much thanks.
Anyway, the UnicodeBlock strings have more than 2k.

-Ulf