From: Marc P. <ma...@an...> - 2003-06-13 17:09:53
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:58:04 -0700, Brian Goetz <br...@qu...> wrote: > One of the things I want to do for 2.0 is to get rid of all of the > performance hacks that were introduced in the early days. They might > or might not have been helpful then, but they are almost certainly > counterproductive now. This will probably get rid of a lot of code. > > Now, I know we've existed thus far without any JAR dependencies, but > one JAR we really should be using is Doug Lea's util.concurrent > library, which contains some excellent building blocks for concurrent > apps. This sounds good to me, but we should monitor the performance to see if it really doesn't degrade. After all, we don't add optimisations without knowing they are really necessary, so we shouldn't take them away unless we know they are unnecessary :-) -- Marc Palmer Contract Java Consultant/Developer http://www.anyware.co.uk/marc/ http://www.wangjammers.org |