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- From: Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- To: xml-dev-digest@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:02:40 -0000
Tyler Baker wrote,
> For most documents, making a call to String.intern()
> 50-100 times in a 100KB document is a lot less expensive than
> doing:
>
> if (x.equals("foo") {
>
> }
> else if (x.equals("bar") {
>
> }
> etc...
>
> As opposed to:
>
> if (x == "foo") {
>
> }
> else if (x == "bar) {
>
>}
> etc.
>
> Calling the equals method can get expensive for large case > > statements.
Sure ... so Don't Do That (tm) ...
If you've got what's effectively a huge case statement then
use a lookup table ... a HashMap or a trie of some sort or
another. Either of those will outperform a large number of
chained String.equals() calls or == tests.
Cheers,
Miles
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