[jdom-interest] New benchmark

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

>http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1706
>
>Interesting reading.  JDOM's looking pretty good (and that's
>particularly impressive since b8 had the StringBuffer performance bug).
>
>But look at the last chart.  There's clearly some bug there we need to
>track down!
>

I'm not so sure. I don't trust his technique for measuring memory 
usage at all. I've done things like that in the past, and on further 
digging I've always found that semantically insignificant changes can 
produce wild, several hundred percent swings in memory usage, 
sometimes even sending the memory negative. Unfortuantely I don't 
have any better way to measure memory, but I really don't trust 
numbers based on System.freeMemory().
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