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PerformanceOrientedCoreUtils

Copyright 2007 John Patton

This package is a set of data structures and other core utilities
designed to replace those provided by Java, although they are not meant
to be drop-in replacements. Instead they are a complete re-think focused
on performance and usability in a production environment. They are
designed to be reliable and efficient, as well as easy to use. Given
their status as fundamental utility classes their names are abbreviated
in a cohesive way in order to save on typing. Alot of time and thought
went into each class in order to maximize performance and correctness.
In short, they are meant to be professional quality development tools.

Long-term usability is considered important, and so it is a policy that
the internal mechanics of existing structures will not be changed in
ways that affect performance characteristics (so much as it is
possible). For example, the Stack uses a linked list right now. It will
never be changed into an array based structure; instead a new class will
be created. Same with methods. Once committed into public release,
methods will not be removed or changed in signicant ways (except to fix
bugs); alternate functionality will instead get added in a new methods.
But new methods will not be allowed in if they require additional
overhead to existing methods and processes or otherwise degrade the
primary functionality of the class. As a deeply connected, core part of
a system, the data structures must forever remain stable.

It is critical for the classes in this project to be absolutely bug
free. To be usable in any sort of major application they must be
completely trustworthy. I have done my best to test them thoughly, but
if you discover a bug please let me know at
<patton99@users.sourceforge.net>. Describe it precisely, and provide
a fix if you can! Any help received in testing will be of benefit to us
all.

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If you would like to contribute or have good ideas that you would like
to share, you can reach me at <patton99@users.sourceforge.net>. Be sure
to look at the TODO files in each project directory if you want to help.