Bug 48750

I noticed serious performance problems with JSF 1.2 and Tomcat which seems to be caused by Tomcat.
The corresponding discussion is available here: http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user&m=126607491020706&w=2

Metadata-complete is set to true in web.xml 
(see https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48600)

I deployed two web apps to Tomcat and Jetty and compared performance data.
Average results of 500 calls of a simple jsf page (jsp) with 1000 h:output tags:

JSF 1.1:
  Tomcat 6.0.24: 26ms
  Jetty 7.0.1: 35ms
 
JSF 1.2:
  Tomcat 6.0.24: 72ms
  Jetty 7.0.1: 41ms

Result:
Tomcat is much faster with JSF 1.1 but terrible slow with JSF 1.2!

One difference between Tomcat and Jetty in the compiled jsp is the AnnotationHelper.

Compiled method for a single outputtext tag:
Tomcat:
private boolean _jspx_meth_h_005foutputText_005f999(javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.JspTag _jspx_th_h_005fform_005f0, PageContext _jspx_page_context)
        throws Throwable {
  PageContext pageContext = _jspx_page_context;
  JspWriter out = _jspx_page_context.getOut();
  //  h:outputText
  org.apache.myfaces.taglib.html.HtmlOutputTextTag _jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999 = new org.apache.myfaces.taglib.html.HtmlOutputTextTag();
  org.apache.jasper.runtime.AnnotationHelper.postConstruct(_jsp_annotationprocessor, _jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999);
  _jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999.setPageContext(_jspx_page_context);
  _jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999.setParent((javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag) _jspx_th_h_005fform_005f0);
  // /1000hout.jsp(1021,0) name = value type = javax.el.ValueExpression reqTime = false required = false fragment = false deferredValue = true expectedTypeName = java.lang.Object deferredMethod = false methodSignature = null
  _jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999.setValue(new org.apache.jasper.el.JspValueExpression("/1000hout.jsp(1021,0) '1'",_el_expressionfactory.createValueExpression("1",java.lang.Object.class)));
  // /1000hout.jsp(1021,0) name = style type = javax.el.ValueExpression reqTime = false required = false fragment = false deferredValue = true expectedTypeName = java.lang.Object deferredMethod = false methodSignature = null
  _jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999.setStyle(new org.apache.jasper.el.JspValueExpression("/1000hout.jsp(1021,0) 'z-index:29202;'",_el_expressionfactory.createValueExpression("z-index:29202;",java.lang.Object.class)));
  _jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999.setJspId("jsp_711124934_1001");
  int _jspx_eval_h_005foutputText_005f999 = _jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999.doStartTag();
  if (_jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999.doEndTag() == javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag.SKIP_PAGE) {
    _jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999.release();
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.AnnotationHelper.preDestroy(_jsp_annotationprocessor, _jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999);
    return true;
  }
  _jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999.release();
  org.apache.jasper.runtime.AnnotationHelper.preDestroy(_jsp_annotationprocessor, _jspx_th_h_005foutputText_005f999);
  return false;
}
  
Jetty:
private boolean _jspx_meth_h_outputText_999(javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.JspTag _jspx_th_h_form_0, PageContext _jspx_page_context)
        throws Throwable {
  PageContext pageContext = _jspx_page_context;
  JspWriter out = _jspx_page_context.getOut();
  //  h:outputText
  org.apache.myfaces.taglib.html.HtmlOutputTextTag _jspx_th_h_outputText_999 = new org.apache.myfaces.taglib.html.HtmlOutputTextTag();
  if (_jspx_resourceInjector != null) {
    _jspx_resourceInjector.inject(_jspx_th_h_outputText_999      );
  }
  _jspx_th_h_outputText_999.setPageContext(_jspx_page_context);
  _jspx_th_h_outputText_999.setParent((javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag) _jspx_th_h_form_0);
  _jspx_th_h_outputText_999.setJspId("id2019");
  _jspx_th_h_outputText_999.setValue(org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.getValueExpression("1", (PageContext)_jspx_page_context, java.lang.Object.class, null));
  _jspx_th_h_outputText_999.setStyle(org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.getValueExpression("z-index:29202;", (PageContext)_jspx_page_context, java.lang.Object.class, null));
  int _jspx_eval_h_outputText_999 = _jspx_th_h_outputText_999.doStartTag();
  if (_jspx_th_h_outputText_999.doEndTag() == javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag.SKIP_PAGE) {
    _jspx_tagPool_h_outputText_value_style_nobody.reuse(_jspx_th_h_outputText_999);
    return true;
  }
  _jspx_tagPool_h_outputText_value_style_nobody.reuse(_jspx_th_h_outputText_999);
  return false;
}

A demo web app is attached
Just call http://<server>:<port>/jsf12/faces/1000hout.jsp

Can the AnnotationHelper be turned off completely?