RE: Xalan Tranformation Running Slow after about 5K Transformations

> I'm wondering why the first few thousands of transformations are running
> smoothly and then the performance degrades!

Hitting the swapper knee, I suspect.

Yes, it's the user's responsibility to release cached information, when 
it's no longer needed, by discarding the Transformer.

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