[UIMA-4396] tiny performance improvement for frequent getBegin/end of Annotation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0SDK
• Component/s: Core Java Framework
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 14/May/15 19:46
• Updated: 02/Jul/15 19:33
• Resolved: 02/Jul/15 19:33

Description

Since they're heavily used, eliminate one indirection and some unneeded validation checking for getBegin and getEnd for Annotations.