Speed up the way we access ICU's locale data.
This patch makes creating a new NumberFormat or new SimpleDateFormat 2x faster.
Basically, the ResourceBundle mechanism is really expensive in several ways:
1. The two-level caching is unnecessary for locale data, and expensive because
it burns through a lot of temporary objects.
2. The PrivilegedAction stuff is unnecessary and expensive because it too burns
quite a few temporary objects (including an ArrayList for each call; should
we consider removing support for SecurityManager so we can remove this cruft
from our code?).
3. The caching in most cases doesn't cache anything useful; the ResourceBundles
simply forward all questions straight to native code anyway, all we're
caching is an unnecessary forwarding object (in a cache where lookups cost
more than just creating a new unnecessary forwarding object would cost).
I've left CurrencyResourceBundle on the slow (ResourceBundle.getBundle) path
because I'm not yet sure how much of that path's semantics it relies on.
I still return LocaleResourceBundle instances (albeit via a much faster path)
but we should fix that. The native code returns an array which ResourceBundle
stuffs into a Hashtable and the calling code accesses via hash table lookups.
This despite the fact that the keys are a small fixed set known in advance.
We could make the native layer and the calling layer simpler and faster by
using a "struct", and doing so would make the middle layer go away completely.
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