Character conversion utilities are being constructed on a per stream basis. Yet, java.lang.String maintains thread local caches of the sun.io converters.

Performance may be significantly enhanced by doing something similar, until ultimately moving to Merlin's java.nio converters.

everett.anderson@Eng 2001-07-17


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Fix Verified OK.

- With Build : j2sdk-1_4_0-beta3-bin-b82-solsparc-03_oct_2001

- With Attached testcase : codetest.tar.Z

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