Looks like I really put my foot into it this time ;-) I have repeated the measurements I did yesterday and I think that it is a pretty reasonable conclusion that a lot of resources are consumed by FOP in its rather Byzantine property management code.
I just spent a while trying to understand PropertyList and PropertyListBuilder and found out that I need to understand Property and Property.Maker as well. I think I am going to have to help with this part of the project but it is going to take a while. I offered (off-line) to look merging the Alt-Design code in to the main branch but I suspect that there are some different directions associated with this. Perhaps this is the reason it has not been done so far. I am still willing to work on this but I don't want to walk in to a firefight. I believe the measurements I did yesterday and I feel that a bit of algorithm replacement should produce a significant improvement in the program. I would also like to suggest that anyone interested in performance look at Java Memory Profiler at http://www.khelekore.org/jmp/performance.html I suspect there are still major memory leaks in FOP and this is one tool that will help you track them down. -- John Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
