Re: Proposal: New CollationKey Byte Representation API additions

Thanks for the link. That really helps me see what I'm talking about. The 
static getIterator method that takes a character array is fantastic. Is 
there any chance of adding some methods to make the iterators reusable?

Geoff Mottram
Minaret Corp.
[email protected]


Ram Viswanadha wrote:
> 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
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Ram Viswanadha
> International Components For Unicode
> GCoC San Jose
> IBM
> 
>