Re: Final Methods in DOMNormalizer.java

2002-08-14 Thread Joseph Kesselman
> Ray Grimmond wrote: > > Please can you explain the reasons for changing these methods to > > FINAL ?? > > Performance (plus the above concerns). Uhmmm. I've seen relatively little evidence that making a method final actually yields better code optimization in modern JVMs. Advice I've gotten

Final Methods in DOMNormalizer.java

2002-08-12 Thread Elena Litani
Hi Ray, I am forwarding this message to the xerces-j-dev list. The DOMNormalizer class should have been *protected* from the start, since its primary reason is to provide implementation to normalizeDocument() function defined in the DOM Level 3 [1]. Given that the DOM Level 3 is at the stage of