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Miles Sabin wrote: > > David Brownell wrote, > > So Miles, if you prefer the occasional synchronization issue > > to the routine method invocation overhead, use a parser that > > obliges you. (Yes, I'm assuming SAX2 doesn't mandate any > > interning, just exposes whether or not it's done.) > > Well, if your assumption is correct, then fine. But I rather > got the impression that some people wanted SAX2 to make > guarantees about Strings being returned java-interned. Some People want all sorts of bizarre things. In fact, I don't trust Some People at all ... ;-) Sanity must at some point reign; demanding that all SAX parsers do something that's not essential (only very desirable in some common cases) would be unwise. > > Though I daresay you'll find that the synchronization isn't > > usually measurable, while your evidently preferred > > alternative (lots of String.equals calls) will consistently > > show up as a performance problem. At least that's been the > > case when I've made such measurements. > > Except that String.intern() isn't the _only_ way of making > foo.equals(bar) iff foo == bar (in particular contexts, as > opposed to across the whole JVM). It's the only way to ensure it's so if foo is a string literal, as is rather common usage. - Dave xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Please note: New list subscriptions now closed in preparation for transfer to OASIS.
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