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Re: [XOM-interest] General comment and specific question

From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>
Cc: hal AT idi.ntnu.no, xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] General comment and specific question
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:18:41 -0400

At 11:22 AM -0400 9/19/02, John Cowan wrote:

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

What don't you like about element.getChildElements().size()?

Instant garbage object.

True, but premature optimization is the root of all evil. If at some point in the future, profiling and benchmarking demonstrates that this is a real hit, I'll consider means of optimizing it.
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[XOM-interest] General comment and specific question concerning element lookup, Hallvard Tr�tteberg, 09/19/2002
- Re: [XOM-interest] General comment and specific question concerning element lookup, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 09/19/2002
  - Re: [XOM-interest] General comment and specific question, John Cowan, 09/19/2002
    - Re: [XOM-interest] General comment and specific question, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 09/19/2002