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  • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: xom-interest <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [XOM-interest] Possible ArrayList optimization
  • Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 16:56:01 -0400

Internally XOM uses ArrayLists to hold both children and attributes. While debugging an unrelated test failure (I hate EBCDIC!) I noticed that these array lists are created by default with a capacity of 10. That means each Element object has at least 80 bytes of overhead that a lot of the time it doesn't need. I'm going to experiment with setting the initial capacity of both the elements and the attributes lists to 0 and 1 and see if that cuts down on memory usage noticeably.

Right now my memory tests are very rough. I have a couple of programs that run out of memory, and I want to see if i can get them to actually run without dumping the VM.

I am a little worried that dropping the capacity might impact speed, so if anyone knows more about array list opitmization, please pipe up!


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Elliotte





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