XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

Actually, the data.duplicate() is not necessary.
CHARSET.decode(data).toString() is sufficient as toString() does not 
alter the buffer's position.

Wolfgang.

On Jun 30, 2004, at 2:05 PM, Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

> Elliotte,
>
> I heard that the ByteToCharConverter used internally by 
> java.lang.String when converting from and to bytes is rather 
> inefficient, and that the new jdk-1.4 Charset coders are much more 
> efficient.
>
> So if you are currently doing benchmarking as seems to be indicated in 
> the last release notes you might want to check if the attached patch 
> or a derivative of it does any good in terms of performance. 
> Unfortunately I'm too busy with tons of other stuff to try and see 
> myself.
> Search for changed lines ending with "// WH".
>
> (Note that Charset.encode and decode are thread-safe).
>
> Wolfgang.