I have been looking at the performance of the latest version of the Apache XML-RPC system when transferring 1Mb byte arrays via base64 encoding. That is to say I have been running the TestBase64 benchmark.
On my test system (Sun 1.3 JVM on Win2K) here the "old Helma" XML-RPC system runs the TestBase64 benchmark (from the current CVS tree) in ~54 seconds. The latest version from CVS runs the same benchmark in ~77 seconds. I have replaced the Base64 implementation with a version of the Base64 encode/decoding from MinML-RPC and tidied up the interfacing of this to the rest of the code (avoiding converting from StringBuffer to String, returning a char array rather than a byte array and the consequential changes). This now runs the benchmark in ~26 seconds. Are you interested in having these patches? John Wilson The Wilson Partnership http://www.wilson.co.uk
