> On Dec 15, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 15/12/2016 14:13, Claes Redestad wrote: > >> >> The context here, I assume, is the increased startup cost to initialize >> java.util.regex in 9 (and a few regression fixes related to this that >> I've done in the area which may have involved avoiding adding a >> regex-free fast path for trivial but common cases): > Yes although it's not an issue at this time.. Looking at it again then we > should be able to decompose it at link time and generate code that > reconstitutes it from its parts. That would avoid needing to reparse at > startup.
That’s one possibility that we could consider in the future. Mandy