XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT ccil.org>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Could this string be garbage collected after I'd decoded it into the 
> byte array I really want? Or would I be carrying the same 64K of data 
> around twice, once in a String and once in a byte array? In which 
> case should I just hide the lookup table in the chars of a String 
> rather than the bytes of an array in the first place?

I think it would be GC'd if you used it to initialize a String variable
and then set the variable to null after you were done.  I'm sure a byte
array would be faster than a String, but I don't know how much faster --
measure it.

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