<i18n dev> RFR :8023563: Bottleneck in java.util.TimeZone.getDefaultInAppContext

[Chris Hegarty]

On 09/02/2013 07:06 PM, Seán Coffey wrote:
> This might be a slightly easier one to read. (fast path logic code first)
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.8023563.2/webrev/

The 'javaAWTAccess != null ' checks are redundant. It will always be the 
case, right?

-Chris.

>
> regards,
> Sean.
>
>
> On 02/09/13 16:47, Seán Coffey wrote:
>> Performance regression reported where a high number of threads calling
>> TimeZone.getDefault can run into a bottleneck on AppContext accessor
>> calls. The bug ID is 8023563 but it's not visible on bugs.sun.com yet.
>>
>> Turns out that we're unnecessarily going through the AppContext in
>> certain scenarios. Main aim is to use AppContext when using applets.
>> We should check for presence of security manager (along with loading
>> for AppContext class) in such cases.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.8023563/webrev/
>>
>> This fix is not applicable to jdk8 as new code is currently being
>> worked on there which eliminates AppContext use.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sean.
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