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-Dan

"John McGrath [TeamB]" <ng-b@JPMcGrath.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:23:15 -0800, Dan Tran wrote:
>
> > Could you enlighten me why java properies is
> > faster interm of look up?
>
> The Java Properties class is a HashTable, which offers fairly quick
> lookup.  A DOM tree is a tree structure, and if you are using simple
> name value pairs, I presume the properties would all be children of
> the root node, so the lookup would be sequential.  A HashTable should
> give you much better performance than sequential lookup.
>
> Of course, if you were loading the properties from a DOM tree and doing
> a significant number of lookups, you would probably want to push them
> into a HashTable (or HashMap) to speed things up.  The result would be
> the same speed as using the Properties object.
>
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>
> John McGrath [TeamB]
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