[jdom-interest] Element, ContextList, AttributeList and performance

[David D. Lucas]

I am profiling some large XML usage by JDOM and noticed that for every 
Element there is a ContextList and AttributeList created each time. 
This uses a lot of objects.

My question is can this be a lazy creation?  My environment does not use 
  attributes and we are more breadth than depth.  Would it be something 
people are interested in?  Maybe a parameter for optimization of 
horizontal versus vertical processing?

I think we can safely move AttributeList to a deferred creation.
But ContextLists?  Should we also configure how many objects should be 
in the initial capacity via property?

Thoughts?


Thanks,
Dave

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