Codereview request for 6653797: Reimplement JDK charset repository charsets.jar

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 16.07.2012 18:59, schrieb Xueming Shen:
> Yes,  it might be desirable to share some of the mappings, especially among those variants. But as
> I suggested at the very beginning of the project, the priority for now is to move all the charsets to
> the new mapping based/build-time generated implementation, then it opens the door for new
> optimization,  any improvement on those base classes and the "generator" tools (to share the
> mapping, for example) will be shared by all the sub-classes/classes. While it might be ideal to
> achieve all the goals at one shot, our resource restrict really does not allow me to spend most
> of my time on it (mapping re-generate really takes time and I have to test from various angles
> to make sure it does not break anything and not miss any corner case). This is more like a
> side-project (sure I do have a JEP for it but...) for now and I just found two "spare" weeks to push
> these two RFEs out.  I might have more time on charsets later around the end development
> stage of JDK8.

I totally agree, thanks.
Hopefully I will have more time then.

Sorry for the double-posting. The 2nd one has correct email for the list + one more text line.

-Ulf