From: Adam Flinton 

Paul Ranson wrote:
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:40229fb0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>first ime or n'th time? If n'th time then a good jvm e.g. the
>>ibm/weblogic one or the hotspot one is rapid.
>
>
> But this is just inefficient and on one level it's quite offensive to my
> conservative engineering taste. You have a tremendously complicated process
> essentially optimising your code at run time into something you can never
> test. To what benefit? To approach the performance of something I could
> compile and test locally.
>

Yup but it allows me to move my code from platform to platform & from
runtime to runtime. I tend to dev on linux & winXP/2k & then deploy
onto something bigger.


>
>>Which goes for every language. In java the main overhead is object
>>creation & destuction but there are so many object caches around
>
> nowaday...
>
> Caching Integers?
>
Nah...Biggger chunkier objects. It's why I always tend to create objects
with a init() & a "handledata()" (whatever that data is
wether event or string or whatever. init the object & cache it (if
you're going to be using it a lot). Good example being all the various xml
handling stuff where the only thing that'll change is the incoming xml.


Adam

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