There has been a bit of an awkward bug in Apache Xalan for a while now, and that bug is XALANJ-2540. The effect of this bug is that an internal SPI configuration file is loaded by Xalan thousands of times per XPath expression evaluation, which can be measured easily as such: this: Element e = (Element) … Continue reading How to Speed Up Apache Xalan’s XPath Processor by Factor 10x
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Conference Gem: The MEDIT Symposium
The MEDIT Symposium is one of this year's international conference gems that you shouldn't miss, if you're into Open Source! It features three very interesting tracks Cloud Computing Open Source Mobile Development I'm delighted to line up my own talk about jOOQ with Apache committers (Cassandra, Cordova, Isis), Groovy Language Toolkit developers, researchers and book authors. … Continue reading Conference Gem: The MEDIT Symposium
How to Behave on Mailing Lists
I recently stumbled upon the following document: http://www.apache.org/dev/contrib-email-tips.html It's a useful list of rules, ideas about how to behave on open source mailing lists. Of course, these rules include both committers and users ;-)