on sun NUMBER sep NUMBER mr fork wrote NUMBER hardware is getting so fast that i m not sure if the performance difference between java and c c are relevant any more when out of the box parsing transform of xml in java is NUMBERx slower than c on the same hardware then it does matter yea and that on top of the NUMBERx of all the parsing engines over just bigendian ing it and passing the data NUMBERx in the raw then it really matters adam l duncan beberg URL beberg URL 