Re: [cp-patches] [Patch] Regenerated locales

[Michael Koch]

Am Sonntag, 26. Dezember 2004 17:00 schrieb Archie Cobbs:
> Michael Koch wrote:
> > I just commited the attached patch with regenerated locale files.
>
> Not knowing much about the locale stuff this may be a dumb
> question, but why are we using class files to store locale
> information, instead of simpler "flat" files stored as resources in
> glibj.zip that get read and interpreted at runtime? There is a lot
> of overhead associated with a class file, not only size but also at
> runtime with class loading, etc. Just curious.

This is historcal. It were java source files. Currently we are in a 
transition to generate these files from data provided by CLDR [1]. 
When this is done and works we will replace the java files with 
properties files. It's work in progress currently.


Michael


[1] http://www.unicode.org/cldr/
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