XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Steve Loughran wrote:


> Maybe you're just trying too hard
>
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/IsCodeOptimizationRelevant.pdf

That presentation seems to be referring specifically to research efforts 
expended on new tricks for optimizing compilers, not optimizing in 
general. Wolfgang finds XOM slower than he would like, so if I can speed 
up XOM without compromising correctness, excessively impacting clarity, 
or negatively affecting memory size, I'd like to do that. Speed is not 
the be-all and end-all, though. I've refused several suggestions 
Wolfgang made because these would have increased memory use (using 
String in Text instead of byte[]) or compromised correctness.

I'm also very interested in dropping the memory usage in any way I can, 
since that really does impact a lot of use cases. Every percentage point 
I can squeeze out of the memory makes XOM feasible for a few more 
documents.

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