RFR: JDK-8032012, , String.toLowerCase/toUpperCase performance improvement

[Remi Forax]

On 02/07/2014 11:32 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2014, at 6:40 PM, Xueming Shen <xueming.shen at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> toUpperCaseEx is overridden in CharacterData00/Latin1. Those two are
>> under gensrc/java/lang. It might be possible to combine them some day
>> (need to dig out some decade long history and probably there is compability
>> concern...), but definitely is beyond the scope of this "improvement" :-)
>>
> I was not suggesting combining, it was more a spin off to pondering of why Character.toUpperCase was not used (mirroring the use of toLowerCase). Anyway, this is minor.
>
>
>> Are we good enough to go? :-) While it took much longer than I would have
>> expected, but I'm happy with the latest result.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8032012/webrev/
>>
> +1 from me.
>
> Paul.

I'm happy with the latest code too.

Rémi