On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 16:29, Tom Tromey wrote: > Anthony, patch 620 (you submitted it a few weeks ago) restores > intern()ing of Locale fields. Is this important for performance?
I think so - but I don't have any proper evidence. Locales are used as keys a fair bit. Interning the strings makes Locale comparisons much faster. It just seems like a good idea, and it simplifies some of the code as well. I can't think of any reason why we shouldn't do this. AG _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
