Subj : Re: Performance?
To   : Rickard <rickard@dreambean.com>
From : Igor Bukanov <igor@fastmail.fm>
Date : Sun Jun 22 2003 02:15 am

Rickard wrote:
> Igor Bukanov wrote:
> 
>>> But, these scripts will run over and over again. Isn't it better to 
>>> have them compiled in that case? 
>>
>>
>> How do you execute the script now? Do you use Context.compileScript() 
>> and call Script.exec() later or call Context.evaluateString directly 
>> which just a convenience method to call the above sequence? 
> 
> 
> I call compileScript() once and exec() them later on (I have a hashmap 
> cache with the script String as key and the compiled script as value).

You did it right. With this setup running Script.exec with the 
optimization  levels >= 0 should indeed be faster, so the slow down 
should be in the nature of your scripts. Could you provide an example?

Regards, Igor

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