+1   Defer paying the price until it is needed.  Thanks for looking into
this.

On 11/9/06, Bryan Noll <bwnoll@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +1.  Seems right to have the 'slowness' occur on the unhappy path
> instead of the happy path.
>
> Craig L Russell wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > Seems like the right tradeoff.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Nov 8, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm investigating ways to optimize startup time a bit, and one thing
> >> that I ran across is resource bundle overhead in calls to
> >> Localizer.forPackage() calls. I'm working on a patch that defers all of
> >> the Localizer.forPackage() overhead to the first use of the localizer,
> >> instead of eagerly looking for data.
> >>
> >> This will mean slightly more overhead on all Localizer method
> >> invocations, but localization generally only happens when writing log /
> >> error messages, so it seems like it's fair to increase the overhead in
> >> those situations in exchange for eliminating the overhead in normal
> >> usage (i.e., when the localizer is not used).
> >>
> >> Since we obtain Localizer instances statically, this should speed up
> the
> >> first load of any class that has a Localizer reference.
> >>
> >> What do others think about this tradeoff?
> >>
> >> -Patrick
> >>
> >> --Patrick Linskey
> >> BEA Systems, Inc.
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