XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:


> If there's a difference it stems from the use of a more or less 
> optimizing compiler. I'm using JDK 1.5 server VM. Apps runnning a client 
> VM in production presumably don't need or care about optimizations anyway.

Given that the Mac only has a client VM, I suspect there's more call to 
optimize on client VMs than you might think. And although the server VM 
is a pretty uniform win in 1.4, that's not true in earlier VMs, of which 
there are still a lot out there and shipping. (For instance, Limewire 
ships 1.3 as their default VM, mostly for reasons of download size.) 
There's no one VM we can pick and say, "We will optimize for this, and 
ignore all others."


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