[STDCXX-943] Inefficiency when retrieving strings from message catalog

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 4.2.1
• Fix Version/s: 4.3.0
• Component/s: 22. Localization
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Severity: Inefficiency
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Travis Vitek
• Created: 21/May/08 20:22
• Updated: 21/May/08 20:25

Description

A single call to _STD::messages<T>::do_get() can call __rw_manage_cat_data() up to three times. Since each call involves a mutex lock/unlock, there are going to be some wasted cycles. It would be nice to reduce this to one call. Perhaps the _RW::__rw_get_message() function could be changed to fill in a pointer to the _STD::__rw_locale that is kept in the cache and the _RW::__rw_get_locale() function could be removed.

For binary compatibility reasons, we may need to add an overload of _RW::__rw_get_message and deprecate the other functions so that they are removed automagically in the next major release.