[jdom-interest] Re: Factories

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 1:43 PM +0100 3/1/04, phil at triloggroup.com wrote:

This factory is really helping us having good performances (we 
currently ship with a custom build of JDOM!), and without this, the 
app will run really slower. That the reason why I reactivated the 
debate on this 2 weeks ago.


I've seen no evidence that this matters at all. The cost of all 
inn-memory manipulation is trivial compared to the cost of input and 
output (including parsing and serialization). There's simply no point 
to optimizing the speed of object creation and manipulation. It's 
certainly not worth doing at the cost of correctness.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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