> Just creating 1000 objects isn't going to take 45 seconds, it sounds like
I was running it in the emulator with the debugger attached. I'll
check logs and try the profiler.

Thanks.

On Jul 22, 12:02 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just creating 1000 objects isn't going to take 45 seconds, it sounds like
> you have something really bad going on somewhere.  With it taking that
> amount of time, you will probably quickly see some serious hot spots if you
> run the profiler.
>
> Also if you are seeing log messages about the GC running during that time,
> this means that something in your code is creating tons and tons of
> temporary objects.  Again the profiler should help a lot in tracking this
> down.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:39 AM, gnugu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Dianne,
>
> > It is not reading and writing that's slow.
>
> > I have a class that has Notes field (ArrayList<Note>). I wrote my test
> > to create 1000 note objects and add it took 45 seconds.
> > Because I can't get XML string out of DOM Document I can't use the
> > Document as my storage for notes which leaves me with creating all
> > these objects as I read the XML.
>
> > It would be ideal for me to use MySQL to store the notes but then I
> > would want to encrypt the table as a whole rather then individual
> > records.
>
> > My own binary format might work if I create my own data reader that
> > would work on my binary data. That's a lot of work.
>
> > Hmm, I wonder if I could simply encrypt the database file. But then
> > how do I feed it to DatabaseHelper?
>
> > On Jul 22, 11:26 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Which part is slow, reading or writing?  If it is writing, just stay the
> > > heck away from the standard XML writers, they are horrendous.  There is a
> > > FastXmlSerializer with limited functionality that you could copy out of
> > the
> > > source code for your own use:
>
> > >http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob;...
>
> > > That said, XML is just pretty intrinsically inefficient to read and
> > write.
> > > I have been yelled at more than once about using it at all. :)  If the
> > > amount of data you are storing is relatively large, you may want to just
> > use
> > > your own binary format.  Yes, this does require a lot more work to deal
> > with
> > > compatibility as the format changes and such, but often that is worth it,
>
> > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:23 AM, gnugu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I'm working on an application where I want to save bunch of
> > > > information in the XML file. I am not using MySQL because I want all
> > > > the info to be encrypted and in one place. I don't know how this could
> > > > be done in the data base.
>
> > > > I was thinking that I would use DOM Document for my data adapter to
> > > > bind with ListView. But I found out that there is no way of getting
> > > > the XML out of DOM Document to save it to the file!
>
> > > > So now I use SAX to read XML and create bunch of objects one for each
> > > > piece of data in memory.
>
> > > > The SDK Guide in Designing for Performance says to avoid creating
> > > > objects (http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/
> > > > performance.html#object_creation<
> >http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/%0Aperformance.ht...>
> > > > ).
>
> > > > I understand and agree and even proved that the performance sucks if I
> > > > do it the way I described above.
>
> > > > What other choice there might be? Anybody has any suggestions how I
> > > > could save bunch of notes and have them all encrypted with ONE
> > > > password as a key base? I know I could use that one key to encrypt
> > > > every database row, but then changing the password would be difficult.
>
> > > > Any suggestions?
>
> > > > Thanks.
>
> > > --
> > > Dianne Hackborn
> > > Android framework engineer
> > > [email protected]
>
> > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> > > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
> > > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see
> > and
> > > answer them.
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> [email protected]
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
> answer them.
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