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Re: SAX, Java, and Namespaces (was Re: Restricted Namespaces for XML)

• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: David Megginson <david@m...>, "xml-dev@i..." <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 16:57:31 -0800

At 07:35 PM 2/4/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>Tyler Baker writes:
>
> > As of JDK 1.1.6 things are not so bad and Java 2 is a bit better 
>
>No, unfortunately it's much worse -- the parser has to re-intern
>*every* element name and attribute name during the parse, so if I have
>6,000 attributes named 'foo', I have to invoke intern 6,000 times
>(just for those attributes).  When I was writing AElfred, I got
>something between a 10-30% speedup 

Lark too; and I just do lookup with binary search, nothing fancy,
and the difference was huge.  What is Java actually doing I wonder? -T.

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