Re: Proposal: New CollationKey Byte Representation API additions

Hi Geoff,
Please see
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/doc/com/ibm/icu/text/UCharacterIterator.ht
ml

> You may file the proposal under my name if you like. Since you are
defining
> the UCharacterIterator class, it would be a huge improvement if you could
> create an instance with a character array in addition to a
CharacterIterator
> (which introduces too much method calling overhead -- one call per
> character).
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/doc/com/ibm/icu/text/UCharacterIterator.ht
ml#getInstance(java.text.CharacterIterator)
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/doc/com/ibm/icu/text/UCharacterIterator.ht
ml#getInstance(char[])
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/doc/com/ibm/icu/text/UCharacterIterator.ht
ml#getInstance(char[],%20int,%20int)

> It would be an additional improvement if there was a way to
> reuse the UCharacterIterator instances. Something like a reset() function
> that takes a character array.
The iterators are thin wrappers around the underlying text object. The
object creation overhead should be minimal.

Regards,

Ram
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Ram Viswanadha
International Components For Unicode
GCoC San Jose
IBM