Re: Performance and java 1.1

2001-09-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
So in conclusion I think there is a general consensus (vote) to move to java 1.2. I will commit what I have so far for the next release. For java 1.1 users: Sorry but I think it is better to do it this way. To run with java 1.1 you could use the collections.jar and change the import statements.

RE: Performance and java 1.1

2001-09-23 Thread Mikko Honkala
. syyskuuta 2001 11:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Performance and java 1.1 Hi All, I have been doing some performance testing so we can get an idea of how things might be improving (or getting worse) with changes to the code. There are three types of tests. I have used 6 fo documents

Performance and java 1.1

2001-09-21 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi All, I have been doing some performance testing so we can get an idea of how things might be improving (or getting worse) with changes to the code. There are three types of tests. I have used 6 fo documents that are generated 500 times. - for each document a new jvm is started, so 3000

Re: Performance and java 1.1

2001-09-21 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
So the question is: can we drop java 1.1 support and use better data structures? +1 for this: -even switching to a 1.2 JVM (+hotspot) without code changes often brings big performance improvements compared to 1.1, so IMHO forcing users to 1.2 is a good thing for FOP in general -the

RE: Performance and java 1.1

2001-09-21 Thread Jim Wright
, 2001 3:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Performance and java 1.1 Hi All, I have been doing some performance testing so we can get an idea of how things might be improving (or getting worse) with changes to the code. There are three types of tests. I have used 6 fo documents that are generated

Re: Performance and java 1.1

2001-09-21 Thread Alex McLintock
Keiron Liddle wrote: [..] So the question is: can we drop java 1.1 support and use better data structures? --- Christian Geisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 (I think we should make this an official vote) I think that FOP is not really usable in Applets which is the only sensible

RE: Performance and java 1.1

2001-09-21 Thread COFFMAN Steven
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Performance and java 1.1 Keiron Liddle wrote: [..] So the question is: can we drop java 1.1 support and use better data structures? --- Christian Geisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 (I think we should make this an official vote) I think that FOP is not really

Re: Performance and java 1.1

2001-09-21 Thread Christian Geisert
Alex McLintock wrote: [..] PS What are the rules for an official vote. I have been told off before for voicing my opinion about a vote in another Apache project. Basically I was told I couldn't vote because I hadn't contributed any source. Shockingly enough this is true for FOP too. see

Re: Performance and java 1.1

2001-09-21 Thread Karen Lease
Keiron Liddle wrote: Hi All, I have been doing some performance testing so we can get an idea of how things might be improving (or getting worse) with changes to the code. [snip] So the question is: can we drop java 1.1 support and use better data structures? Interesting results! With

RE: Performance and java 1.1

2001-09-21 Thread Art Welch
- what a joke) -Original Message- From: Karen Lease [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Performance and java 1.1 Keiron Liddle wrote: Hi All, I have been doing some performance testing so we can get an idea of how

Re: Performance and java 1.1

2001-09-21 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron Liddle wrote: Hi All, . Some recent changes have improved the times by about 1 - 2% but one change that I have tried has made about a 60% improvement with the threaded test. This is by simply using HashMap instead of Hashtable. This is very significant for cocoon and