Shameless self-promotion: The Soot framework developed at McGill University (www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot) does Java optimization. You can run your programs through Soot and they should come out a bit faster. Instructions for doing so are found at http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/tutorial/optimizer/ Soot is free software (licensed under the LGPL). pat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]