XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

It strikes me that reporting performance issues is similar to reporting 
bugs. A problem will get addressed sooner if it comes with a small, 
self-contained, reproducible test case, rather than simply a report. A 
report that doesn't provide a test case will still be addressed, but 
later rather than sooner because then I have to invent a test case that 
exposes the issue.

This is even more true in the case of optimization than bug reporting 
because it's relatively hard to write the test case, and many tests 
prove not to be reproducible across different hardware and VMs. Some 
bugs are obvious. Performance issues almost never are.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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