Question about Batik performance

[William Huang]

I made an application which bundle Batik, Rhino Engine and SAX2 parser together for SVG processing. I found there is noticeable delay from class loading to rendering completion. The problem is extremely significant when the path is a little complex which costs tens of seconds to get done. Is there some ways to improve the performance or has Batik project group have a plan in this area? For example, improving file I/O and TCP networking I/O speed using the Java 1.4 NIO, parsing element more efficiently, better integration with other open-source projects, and so on?   Regards, William