Tower of Babel

This smell occurs when processes excessively convert, parse, and translate internal data into a common exchange format such as XML.

Solution: he Fast Path performance pattern identifies paths that should be stream-lined. Minimize the conversion, parsing, and translation on those paths by using the Coupling performance pattern to match the data format to the usage patterns.

Reference

Smith, C. U., & Williams, L. G. (2003). More new software performance antipatterns: Even more ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Computer Measurement Group Conference.