• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: Gabe Beged-Dov <begeddov@j...>, David Megginson <david@m...>
• Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:44:43 -0800

At 07:27 PM 3/27/99 -0800, Gabe Beged-Dov wrote:
>XML::Parser is layered on expat. Anecdotal evidence seems to be that there is an order of
>magnitude performance advantage to "parsing" something other than XML. The two alternatives
>are a textual format that Perl can eval directly (Data::Dumper) and a binary format
>(Storable).

That's because there is some breakage in the design of the expat/perl linkage.
In my tests, given a file of  a couple of meg, perl can read it in under
a second, xmlwf (i.e. raw expat) in an almost unmeasurably-short time, and
XML::Parser takes 10 seconds plus.  This is just a bug and will be fixed.
 -Tim

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