[XOM-interest] StackOverflowError compiling XOM

Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Thu Jul 10 19:47:42 EDT 2008


Michael Kay wrote:
>> 	What does XOM do differently from other programs which 
>> causes compiler problems?
>>
> 
> I believe it has some large tables of Unicode characters.
> 

That's pretty much it. XOM skates very close to the maximum legal size 
of a Java method.

> I had the same problem in Saxon but found ways of encoding the data to work
> around the compiler limits. It's pretty messy though.
> 

I'll have to take a look at what you did some time.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo at metalab.unc.edu


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