XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

> Another, unrelated thing to note is that JDK 1.5 nomore does 
> String.subString() sharing. It's good news since it can eliminate hidden 
> memory leaks, and it's bad news since it can produce tons of memory 
> overhead where code implicitly assumes that substrings are shared. For 
> example, Element.prefix and Element.localName come to my mind. Even if a 
> prefixed qname is constant, new copies are generated by the internal 
> design of Element, and, worse, semi-permanently stored in Element. Same 
> for Attribute.

Oh crap. This is what I hate about optimization. You get it just right, 
and then everything changes. Does this mean I should be calling intern 
on the prefixes and local names? Or does substring at least do that in 1.5?

I'll look at this, but I'm not going to make any 1.5 specific 
optimizations for at least the next few months. Right now the prime 
target is Java 1.4. Sometime down the road, I'll think about targeting 
1.5 instead.

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