[jdom-interest] XPATH engine

[Michael Kay]

> For what it's worth, it's probably cheaper to add a bit of 
> horsepower to
> your machine rather than labour trying to optimize such 
> things. 

I've seen cases where an hour's work replacing Xalan by Saxon gave a tenfold
performance improvement. On one occasion I've seen 1000-fold improvement.
It's hard to achieve that by buying more memory.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/