XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:


> Based on your own comments in the code it seems you can't see a reason 
> for the anomalous and counter-intuitive observation yourself, right? So 
> i suggest that the funny hack in there is a low-level optimizations that 
> runs the risk of hurting more than it helps (if it ever helped and you 
> were not tricked by the profiler), not the other way round. Think about 
> it for a moment :-)

It's a not a low-level optimization. It's not an optimization at all. 
It's just the most natural way to write that particular piece of code. 
It's just that when I went to optimize I discovered that apparently it 
worked faster than the alternative, but I'll take another look at it.

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