Performance Questions

["Marc M. Adkins" <suppressed>]

Is there a performance advantage to using bucket brigades vs. just 
"printing" to the request object?  I assume the latter uses the former 
at some level.

I have a PerlResponseHandler feeding into a PerlOutputFilterHandler. 
The latter uses bucket brigades directly for both input and output.  The 
former just prints to the request object.  I was wondering if I should 
fix the PerlResponseHandler to use bucket brigades directly, or if it 
really mattered.

The other side of this is that the response handler generates XML and 
the output filter handler consumes it.  I was thinking that I should be 
able to hang the XML object (not the text representation thereof) on the 
request object and avoid the overhead of printing the XML and then 
parsing it again.  Has anyone tried doing this?

Marc M. Adkins