XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>]

> As I said, this misses the point. The point is that trying to tweak a 
> little memory to enable very large documents is a loosing 
> battle. It's a fight one cannot win, only loose.

I disagree with this. Firstly, if you can halve the memory requirements then
you've increased the number of people who can use your product by a useful
margin. More importantly, I've found that whenever you take reasonable steps
to be less profligate with memory, you increase speed. Allocating and
reclaiming memory takes time. OK: the number of objects is probably more
important than the number of bytes. But they tend to be correlated.


Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/