Java escape HTML - string replace slow?
- by cpf
Hi StackOverflow,
I have a Java application that makes heavy use of a large file, to read, process and give through to SolrEmbeddedServer (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/).
One of the functions does basic HTML escaping:
private String htmlEscape(String input)
{
return input.replace("&", "&").replace(">", ">").replace("<", "<")
.replace("'", "'").replaceAll("\"", """);
}
While profiling the application, the program spends roughly 58% of the time in this function, a total of 47% in replace, and 11% in replaceAll.
Now, is the Java replace that slow, or am I on the right path and should I consider the program efficient enough to have its bottleneck in Java and not in my code? (Or am I replacing wrong?)
Thanks in advance!
