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- From: Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- To: xml-dev-digest@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:57:11 -0000
David Brownell wrote,
> So Miles, if you prefer the occasional synchronization issue
> to the routine method invocation overhead, use a parser that
> obliges you. (Yes, I'm assuming SAX2 doesn't mandate any
> interning, just exposes whether or not it's done.)
Well, if your assumption is correct, then fine. But I rather
got the impression that some people wanted SAX2 to make
guarantees about Strings being returned java-interned.
> Though I daresay you'll find that the synchronization isn't
> usually measurable, while your evidently preferred
> alternative (lots of String.equals calls) will consistently
> show up as a performance problem. At least that's been the
> case when I've made such measurements.
Except that String.intern() isn't the _only_ way of making
foo.equals(bar) iff foo == bar (in particular contexts, as
opposed to across the whole JVM).
I use thread-local app-interning and ==, or no interning at all
and String.equals() ... as Arkin noted the overhead in the
latter case isn't too bad with a decent JIT.
Cheers,
Miles
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