XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

I wrote a benchmark of my own that just copies an existing document 
manually (i.e. without using the various copy methods) so that it hits 
everything in the Verifier. Profiling revealed a few hotspots, 
particularly places where I should have been caching the length of a 
string and using a toCharArray instead of charAt. However some of the 
optimizations you suggested seemed to have negative effects on my VM. In 
particular, pulling the try-catch blocks out of for loops appeared to 
slightly increase the time spent in those methods. We may be at the 
point where optimizations are getting too tightly tied to the 
idiosyncrasies of one VM or the other. :-(

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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