I came accross an interesting paper on using Jumbo to optimize marshalling in Kaffe's ObjectOutputStream by a factor of magnitude, or two.
Makes me wonder what it would do for speeding up reflection, as well.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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