I just finished a project where I had to do a fair bit
of performance tuning work over the last year. I was
looking through the current digester source, and even
without torquing the code wierdly or changing class
APIs I've seen places that could probably be made
faster.
1) Would folks be interested in digester performance
fixes? No point in my wasting time on them if, for
example, some major re-write is underway.
2) What would be the preferred way of submitting them?
I was thinking of submitting a tweaked class as an
enhancement request with an attached patch and maybe a
unit test that measured both the old and new code.
People could use the test to try the changes on other
platforms (I'd only be testing on some Win32 sdk
versions, but the fixes I have in mind should either
help or at least do no harm on other platforms).
How much of a gain people would see in real use of
course would depend on what they were doing; I'm
expecting these fixes to matter more in situations
where digesters would run frequently (e.g. SOAP) and
developers have, where feasible, already dealt with
the obvious (factoring out rule+parser factory+parser
instantiations).
Thanks
Reid
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