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From: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>
Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org, "John.Cowan" <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] More Serializer performance patches
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:59:48 -0400

Steve Loughran wrote:

wierd. Could be memory cache related;one thing buffers the disk, the
other buffers main memory. If only we had prefetch hints in java
machine code.

I suspect it has more to do with the efficiencies gained by doing byte-to-character conversion in blocks rather than one at a time. It may depend on the character set. But that's just a guess.

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Re: [XOM-interest] More Serializer performance patches, Elliotte Harold, 10/11/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] More Serializer performance patches, John.Cowan, 10/11/2005
  - Re: [XOM-interest] More Serializer performance patches, Elliotte Harold, 10/11/2005
    - Re: [XOM-interest] More Serializer performance patches, Steve Loughran, 10/11/2005
      - Re: [XOM-interest] More Serializer performance patches, Elliotte Harold, 10/11/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] More Serializer performance patches, Wolfgang Hoschek, 10/12/2005