--- John Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. >
It would be great if you can help us out--you may be one of the few that can understand both Alt-Design and our current approach in HEAD--plus you seem to be very knowledgable in code optimization--what we need here. May I suggest, start tentatively sketching out your ideas for properties on our FOP wiki page--you'll probably get comments from many of the other committers. > 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 > That looks like a fantastic product for us--I did a Google search on it as soon as I saw your screen shots on it--thanks--we possibly should even add it to our team page so others can critique our code as well. > I suspect there are still major memory leaks in FOP > and this > is one tool that will help you track them down. > Yes, this is something that will help us get to them--Thanks! Glen __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
