I reproduced the problem (on Java8): https://github.com/tkruse/javax-getvalue-slowdown
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-jasper-el:7.0.8 300000 expressions in 85 ms org.mortbay.jasper:apache-el:8.0.33 300000 expressions in 208 ms Where the slowdown can be reduced by overriding ELContext.convertToType() with a method directly calling ELSupport.coerceToType(). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org