[GROOVY-3256] MarkupBuilder performance

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6-rc-1
• Fix Version/s: 1.6
• Component/s: XML Processing
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Alexander Veit
• Created: 05/Jan/09 08:22
• Updated: 05/Jan/13 20:19
• Resolved: 05/Jan/13 20:19

Description

MarkupBuilder#escapeXmlValue uses an algorithm for XML escaping that has unneccessary space and time requirements.

The attached patch (for trunk), while having less memory consumption, seems to increase the performance to factors between 5 and 25.