[jdom-interest] Performance tests

[Jason Hunter]

Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
> 
> I suspect your handling of namespaces (used heavily by SOAP)
> is considerably more efficient than Xerces-JDOM's, something I 
> hadn't covered in my tests but should add.

Dennis, you should be aware there was a simple optimization made after
JDOM beta6 (available in CVS) which improved document parse time by 20x
for small files using namespaces.  Outside that we haven't done any real
optimization work yet.

-jh-