Re: patch 620

[Anthony Green]

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