[jdom-interest] Internal DTD subset verification

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 8:02 PM -0700 5/8/02, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:

>The issue is not that I/O would "swamp" what I'm testing, but rather 
>that it's irrelevant. The I/O overhead is going to be the same 
>regardless of what model is used. Is it greater than the build time? 
>From a quick sanity check (wc the full set of mid and large xml 
>files, from disk not in cache) it looks like reading the files is at 
>least as fast as building the JDOM representations on my system. 
>That's obviously going to depend a lot on how you're getting the 
>documents, though - which is the other reason I don't want it as a 
>factor in my tests.
>

But the I/O is relevant to anybody using JDOM who is going to have 
read in the files form somewhere, possibly disk, possibly a network. 
My claim is that in that more realistic scenario, JDOM performance is 
a much smaller fraction of the total. Thus we really shouldn't be 
wasting out time optimizing it, and we certainly shouldn't be 
worrying about optimizing it at the expense of correctness.
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