Years ago we had a system that was performing really badly. It turns out that it spent over 50% of its time on log.debug(xmldoc) The debug method took a strin

Years ago we had a system that was performing really badly. It turns out that it spent over 50% of its time on log.debug(xmldoc) The debug method took a string, and Java was converting the xmldoc to a string. This was back in the 1.4/1.5 days.