How does the C version of VTD-XML compare with the Java Version?
Well, C version is actually a hair (<5%) slower than VTD-XML's Java version running on server JVM, which does a phenomenal job optimizing the byte code. For that reason, we highly recommend that the server JVM should be used for all purposes. In terms of the implementation, C is almost an replica of the Java version in that virtually for every line of C code, there is a corresponding line of Java code that performs the same function. The VTD-XML project team chose to do so to minimize the porting effort because C and Java syntax have a large number of overlaps. Another benefit is that if there is a bug in Java, we can be certain there is going to be an exact bug in the same place in C code.
