String interning (WAS: SAX2/Java: Towards a final form)

[David Brownell]

"Clark C. Evans" wrote:
> 
> There are going to be lots of server side filter
> architectures using the SAX interface which may
> not do this.  Indeed, I'd say that the "parser"
> interface is mis-named.  It's really an "emitter".
> And I'd go so far to say that in a few years,
> 99% of the "emitters" out there won't be parsers!

I sort of hope so.  XML data models shouldn't be
forced to stop right above parsing; it's not always
appropriate.  It should certainly be possible to
assemble pipelines of components which may optionally
be sourced by a parser, but don't need to be.


> A java compiler could, for instance, take:
> 
>   lhs.equals(rhs)
> 
> and compile it as
> 
>   ( lhs == rhs | lhs.equals(rhs) )

Any implementation of "equals" that doesn't
first test for "==" has serious problems; and
I include the String.equals implementations
up to JDK 1.1.6 or so when I say that.

Even so, method invocation is never free, and it's
appropriate to ensure that it can be (sometimes)
eliminated directly in the source code.

- Dave

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