[stringtemplate-interest] caching property lookup (sync issue too)

[Micheal J]

> On July 11 2006, Terence Parr wrote:
> 
> Well, i just profiled ANTLR generating the thousands of lines 
> of Java  
> code for a C grammar.  The reflection part took 120microseconds so  
> about an 1/8 of 1ms.  This is w/o the property caching.  I have  
> commented out for simplicity in the source and avoided a synch.  
> problem at same time.

It might just be that your particular test case(s) do a minimal amount of
reflection. I imagine that ST-based web page generation is likely a heavier
user of reflection - in general - than source code generation. If only
because of the much-longer lifetime of ST group instances...

Just a thought.


Micheal