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

[Jason Hunter]

Brad actually created such a thing, and it turns out it made the
implementation code a *lot* more complicated (read: less reliable) and
didn't provide a justifiable memory savings.

-jh-

"David D. Lucas" wrote:
> 
> 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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