Calling method on object passed from applet - Performance..

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Hi,

I am using an applet to make callbacks into a javascript function. This
function takes an object as a parameter.
When I make the call from the applet into the javascript function, The
function then reads properties from the object and does some stuff.

This is all fairly straight forward and works fine but...

When we are using the MS JVM, it runs fine, and has no performance issues.
When we run using any of the SUN JVMs there is a massive hit on the CPU and
we tend to get a max out at 100%.

I have tried to search for ways to optimize this, but the hit seems to be
when we actually make the call from javascript into the object methods:

function processUpdate(msg) {
try{
//Here is the big hit!
var id = msg.getID();
var date = msg.getDate();
var bid = msg.getBid();
var ask = msg.getAsk();

var table = document.getElementById("Prices");
var row = table.rows[id];
row.cells[0].firstChild.nodeValue = id;
row.cells[1].firstChild.nodeValue = date;
row.cells[2].firstChild.nodeValue = bid;
row.cells[3].firstChild.nodeValue = ask;
}catch(e) {
alert(e);
}
}

The methods themselves are just proerty gets, so the simply do return fo a
variable value.

Has anyone ever come acroass this problem and know a solution?

Regards,

Steve