Hey Chris,
Yeah, this has been on my todo list for a few weeks. I'll see if I can
make this change this week. Of course, patches are always welcome ;-)
- James
Chris Berry wrote:
> Greetings,
> We did another round of PLT (performance/load testing) against our
> Abdera-based Atom Store last week, before we push the latest rev into
> Production.
> And YourKit pointed at a place to make a small, but noticeable
> performance tweak (NOTE: we are on 0.3.0)
> James, I know you are focused on this lately, and may find this helpful?
>
> We found that *over half the time* spent in constructing the FOM of a
> Feed/Entry for the Response, is spent in the IRI decoder!!
> This happens in several places. For example;
> category.setScheme( String scheme );
> entry.addLink( String uri, String rel );
>
> These methods take a String, but verify that it is indeed a valid URI --
> only to convert it back to a String again.
> We worked around this in our code by doing hacks like this::
>
> // entry.addLink(fileURI, "self");
>
> /*<hack>*/
> Link link = factory.newLink(entry);
> link.setAttributeValue(Constants.HREF, fileURI);
> link.setRel("self");
> /*</hack>*/
>
> But IMHO, it might be nice for Abdera to make this verification optional.
> Similar to how XML parsers allow people to choose whether to verify
> their XML or not (most users do not in Production).
>
> e.g. addLink( String uri, String rel, boolean validate );
>
> Thanks,
> -- Chris
> S'all good --- chriswberry at gmail dot com
>
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